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Total cellular IoT connections reached around 4.5 billion at the end of 2025.
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Source
- Publisher
- Ericsson · homepage ↗
- Report
- Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - IoT connections outlook
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 16 June 2026
- Locator
- Key findings
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable
- Report licence
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Verification
- Status
- Verified · automated check
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- Automated check (quote contains value)
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 88%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- Ericsson. (2026). Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - IoT connections outlook. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4SR
- MLA
- Ericsson. "Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - IoT connections outlook." 2026, https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/dataforecasts/iot-connections-outlook. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4SR.
- Chicago
- Ericsson. "Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - IoT connections outlook." 2026. https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/dataforecasts/iot-connections-outlook. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4SR.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ericsson2026cellular, author = {{Ericsson}}, title = {Ericsson Mobility Report June 2026 - IoT connections outlook}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4SR}, note = {Original source: https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/dataforecasts/iot-connections-outlook. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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