{"id":198581,"date":"2025-04-10T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/2025-mobile-market-summary"},"modified":"2025-04-10T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T12:02:00","slug":"mobile-market-overview-still-buoyant-into-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=198581","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Market Overview: Still Buoyant Into 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/2025-mobile-market-summary\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/2025\/Blog%20Assets\/girls-8883851_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Two woman look at mobile phone; at the end of 2024, the global mobile subscription total stood at 8.8 billion.\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the end of 2024, the global mobile subscription total stood at 8.8 billion, according to figures from our<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.telegeography.com\/en\/globalcomms-database-service\">GlobalComms Database<\/a>. This is up from 8.7 billion a year earlier and 8.5 billion at end-2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, the total was closer to 7.0 billion; at the end of 2004, it was just 1.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2F2025-mobile-market-summary&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2024, the global mobile subscription total stood at 8.8 billion, according to figures from our&nbsp;GlobalComms Database. This is up from 8.7 billion a year earlier and 8.5 billion at end-2022.<br \/>\nTen years ago, the total was close&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5029,864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer","category-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198582,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198581\/revisions\/198582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}