Security News > 2021 > October > 5G connections reached 429 million in Q2 2021

Subscriber adoption of the fifth generation of wireless has increased significantly, as global wireless 5G connections for the second quarter of 2021 reached 429 million, according to data from Omdia, said 5G Americas.

The world added 124M 5G connections between Q1 and Q2 of 2021.

According to Omdia, the world added 124 million 5G connections between Q1 and Q2 of 2021, increasing 41% from 305 million to 429 million.

5G remains on pace to triple the number of connections in 2020 and is forecast to reach 692 million globally by the end of the calendar year.

By region, North America had a total of 44.6 million 5G connections by the end of Q2 2021, which is an addition of 17.9 million 5G connections and 67 percent quarter over quarter growth.

It had 501 million LTE connections by the end of Q2 2021, which marks a 0.66 percent quarterly decline in LTE. In its first year of commercial availability in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5G connections reached 15,706, which includes 11655 new additions in the past year.

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