Mobile broadband share of all mobile subscriptions

Mobile broadband now accounts for 89 per cent of all mobile subscriptions, up from less than 50 per cent of mobile subscriptions in 2015.

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International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Subscriptions. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-subscriptions/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ESPWK4WBYB6QFTX4RPTW4FE25C

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MLA

International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Subscriptions." 2025, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-subscriptions/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ESPWK4WBYB6QFTX4RPTW4FE25C.

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Chicago

International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Subscriptions." 2025. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-subscriptions/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ESPWK4WBYB6QFTX4RPTW4FE25C.

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@misc{itu2025mobile4fe25c, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Subscriptions}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ESPWK4WBYB6QFTX4RPTW4FE25C}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-subscriptions/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }

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