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Internet of Things to overtake mobile phones by 2018: Ericsson Mobility Report

  • 16 billion connected devices forecast to join the Internet of Things by the end of 2021
  • Smartphone subscriptions to surpass those for basic phones in Q3 this year
  • Teenage use of cellular data for smartphone video grew 127 percent in just 15 months
  • The latest edition of the Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) Mobility Report, published today, reveals that the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake mobile phones as the largest category of connected device by 2018.
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