<p> <i> 20.53 pm </i> One billion new unique mobile

 subscribers by 2020: Report

The new GSMA report forecast that the number of unique mobile subscribers will increase 

from 3.6 billion at the end of 2014 to 4.6 billion by 2020, increasing by four percent per year

 over this period.

At least one billion people will become

mobile subscribers over the next five years,


 according to a report. The new GSMA 

report forecast that the number of unique

 mobile

 subscribers will increase from 3.6 billion at

 the end of 2014 to 4.6 billion by 2020,

 increasing 

by four percent per year over this period. "A decade ago, just one in five of the global 

population was a mobile subscriber we have now surpassed the 50 percent milestone and

 can look forward to connecting a billion new subscribers over the next five years," said 

Director General of the GSMA Anne Bouverot. By 2020, almost 60 percent of the global

 population will subscribe to mobile services, up from half of the population at the end of

 2014, a statement released here said. Global subscriber growth over the next five years

 will 

therefore be concentrated in the developing world, driven by the increasing affordability of

 mobile devices and services. The number of global SIM connections2 is forecast to grow 

from 7.1 billion in 2014 to 9 billion by 2020. This implies that every unique mobile 

subscriber 

will continue to account for roughly 1.8 SIM cards each, on average, during the period. The

 new GSMA report, 'The Mobile Economy: 2015' was published at Mobile World Congress in

 Barcelona. In 2014, the mobile industry contributed USD 3 trillion to the world's economy,

 equivalent to 3.8 percent of global GDP. By 2020, it is estimated that the contribution from

 the industry will increase to USD 3.9 trillion, representing 4.2 percent of projected global

 GDP by this point, the report said.</p>