Live estimate · modelled from a dated total · how it's made
5G subscriptions added this year
- around 660 million Actual · 2025 · Ericsson
- 20.9 subscriptions per second, modelled
- +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
- 169,239,750
Counted in subscriptions.
How this number is made
- 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.
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