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Ranging from smartwatches and smartphones to environmental sensors and autonomous robots, more than 259M 5G devices blanketed the nation last year, an increase of 43M over the previous year.
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Source
- Publisher
- CTIA · homepage ↗
- Report
- 2025 Annual Survey Highlights
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 4 September 2025
- Locator
- Americans Flock to 5G
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
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- Reachable
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- Verified · automated check
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- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 88%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- CTIA. (2025). 2025 Annual Survey Highlights. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4V8
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- CTIA. "2025 Annual Survey Highlights." 2025, https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Survey-Highlights.pdf. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4V8.
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- CTIA. "2025 Annual Survey Highlights." 2025. https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Survey-Highlights.pdf. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4V8.
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- @misc{ctia2025devices, author = {{CTIA}}, title = {2025 Annual Survey Highlights}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T64ZTD2K066E4BAY4V8}, note = {Original source: https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Annual-Survey-Highlights.pdf. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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