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For the first time, Facts and Figures estimates the total number of 5G subscriptions, which now account for about one-third - or around 3 billion - of all mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide.
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- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Report
- Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 17 November 2025
- Locator
- Connectivity's quality challenge
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
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- 15 September 2026
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- 15 September 2026
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- International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QE
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides." 2025, https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QE.
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- International Telecommunication Union. "Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides." 2025. https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QE.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025subscriptions, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Global number of Internet users increases, but disparities deepen key digital divides}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4QE}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2025-11-17-Facts-and-Figures.aspx. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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