5G subscriptions added this year
Estimated range: 499,915,259 – 586,857,043 (±8%)
- around 660 million Actual · 2025 · Ericsson
- 20.9 subscriptions per second, modelled
- Tier B (±8%) Moderate confidence
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 20.9
- Per minute
- 1,254
- Per hour
- 75,290
- Per day
- 1,806,981
- Still to come this year
- 116,162,103
Counted in subscriptions.
How this number is made
- Algorithm
- Annual flow spread
Evenly distributed across 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days) of the year.
- Confidence Tier
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Tier B Moderate confidence
Ericsson Mobility Report network telemetry and operator subscriber database.
- Error Band
- ±8%
Modelled range: 499,915,259 to 586,857,043
- Annualized Validation
- ≤ 3.0% tolerance passed
Pace: 660,000,000 subscriptions/yr vs cited reference 660,000,000 subscriptions/yr (exact match)
- Basis
- Actual for 2025
- Record
- STO-01M2HY9T64
- Source
- Ericsson, Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - Mobile subscriptions outlook (16 Jun 2026)
“During 2025, around 660 million 5G subscriptions were added globally, with the total accounting for one-third of all mobile subscriptions at the end of the year.”
- Step 01
Take Ericsson’s figure for 2025: around 660 million.
- Step 02
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 20.9 subscriptions per second.
- Step 03
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
Frequently asked questions
Which published figure is the counter based on?
Ericsson’s figure for 2025: around 660 million.
How is the live number calculated?
Take Ericsson’s figure for 2025: around 660 million. Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 20.9 subscriptions per second. Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
How accurate is the counter?
Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
Where does the data come from?
Ericsson, “Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - Mobile subscriptions outlook” (16 Jun 2026). The record quotes the publisher’s own sentence, and nothing on the page is fetched live from the publisher.
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