全球即將進入"6歲以上每人一部手機"的時代

While the concept of 6-year-olds texting one another from across the playground or placing calls from kindergarten cubbies may sound like a hilarious premise, it’s also a stunning inevitability of our burgeoning mobile age.

6歲的孩子隔着操場互發短信，或是在幼兒園的小教室裏打電話，聽起來似乎是挺搞笑的一幕，但是隨着移動時代的迅速發展，這一幕將成爲不可避免的現實。

The Swedish communications giant Ericsson has released a new mobility report claiming that, by the year 2020, 90 percent of the world’s population aged 6 years and over will have mobile phones. At that point, Ericsson estimates total smartphone subscriptions will number 6.1 billion; there are an estimated 2.7 million total smartphone subscribers today.

瑞典通訊業巨頭愛立信公司（Ericsson）近日發佈了一份移動業報告稱，到2020年，全球不低於6歲的人口中，90%都將擁有移動電話。據愛立信預測，屆時全球智能手機用戶總數將達到61億人。而目前全球的智能手機用戶爲27億。

And the 6-year-olds in question aren’t merely inheritors of their parents’ defunct devices that exclusively run apps and games. The report’s executive editor, Patrick Cerwall, told Entrepreneur that the figure had been calculated by looking at active phones connected to a network.

而那些6歲的孩子並非只是用從父母那兒“退休”的設備玩玩遊戲和應用而已。該報告的執行編輯帕特里克o塞瓦爾對《企業家》雜誌表示，這個數字是根據聯網的活躍手機的數量計算出來的。

The report was chock full of other eye-popping finds. The fastest areas of growth for new mobile subscriptions, Ericsson said, are India and China. Additionally, video is the largest and fastest-growing segment of mobile data traffic, comprising 45 to 55 percent of all 4G-dominated networks.

該報告還有很多其它驚人的發現。愛立信公司指出，智能手機新用戶增長最快的地區是印度和中國。此外，視頻功能是耗費移動數據流量最多、也是增長最快的部分，佔所有4G網絡的45%到55%。

Finally, with the commercial deployment of 5G — the next generation of mobile standards — by 2020, subscriptions are bound to increase even faster, just as 4G caused a greater spike in subscriptions than 3G, Ericsson said.

最後愛立信公司還表示，隨着下一代移動網絡標準——5G網絡的商用，到2020年，移動用戶的增長速度還會更快，就像4G用戶的增長速度要明顯超過3G一樣。