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Most Wireless Connections Worldwide Will Be at Least 4G by 2025, GSMA Says

Two-thirds of the world’s mobile connections will be 4G or 5G by 2025, GSMA reported Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, predicting 35 billion IoT connections in 2025. It forecasts 4G will cover 53 percent of mobile connections…

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worldwide by then, up from 29 percent in 2017. Only 14 percent will be 5G. “We are at the dawn of a new era in mobile with the imminent launch of the first 5G networks and the Internet of Things poised to further transform the way we live and work,” said Mats Granryd, GSMA director general. “Operators continue to expand and upgrade their 4G networks in order to provide an evolutionary path into the 5G era.”