The data displays the number of registered mobile broadband subscriptions around the world from 2007 to 2017. In 2011, there were almost 1.2 billion mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide.
Mobile broadband - additional information
In the early days of the Internet, the service was used exclusively by the military and American universities for scientific purposes. By the mid-1990s, improving technologies allowed individual consumers to also access the online medium through dial-up Internet services by means of telephone lines and modems.
