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LatAm smartphone users to double to 603 mln by 2020 - study
2015-06-05 10:34:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Smartphone subscriptions in Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to more than double to 603 million by 2020, around 86 percent of the population, according to Ericsson's latest Mobility Report. In total, the region will add some 330 million smartphone subscriptions between 2014 and 2020, said the report, reaching 824 million mobile telephony subscriptions at the end of the period, compared to 745 million at the end of 2014. Latin America and the Caribbean will also move from mainly GSM/EDGE-only markets to WCDMA/GSM and LTE over the next five years, with the share of 3G and 4G subscriptions rising from 40 percent in 2014 to 90 percent in 2020.
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