Mobile Broadband Subscribers Grew 50% in 2011

“The number of mobile broadband subscribers jumped nearly 50 percent in 2011 to 846 million and we expect that number to reach 2.6 billion by 2016, driven by Brazil, Russia, India, China and others in the developing world,” says  Stéphane Téral, Infonetics Research principal analyst for mobile infrastructure and carrier economics. 


“We anticipate Asia Pacific to account for over half of the world’s mobile broadband subscribers by 2016, while Latin America will see the fastest growth,” he says.