Wireless Carriers Serve 5 Billon Subscribers Worldwide, GSMA Says

The wireless industry now serves more than 5 billion unique mobile subscribers, said GSMA Intelligence, and it has "taken four years to add the latest 1 billion subscribers.” Projections are industry will hit 5.7 billion by the end of the decade. The most penetrated region is Europe, where 86 percent subscribe, and sub-Saharan Africa is the least-penetrated region at 44 percent, GSMA said. China has more than a billion subscribers, India 730 million.