A report by Ericsson Mobile Services expects the number of 5G subscriptions to reach 130m in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by 2026, which represents 15% of the total mobile subscriptions.
The commercial deployment of 5G technology began in the region in 2019 and 2020, with subscriptions to the new technology expected to reach nearly 1.4m by the end of 2020, especially in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC).
Fady Pharaon, President of Ericsson Middle East and Africa, said during a virtual conference, on Monday, that the MENA region is expected to witness the highest growth rate in the monthly use of mobile data services over the next five years. This will lead to a 7-fold increase in the total traffic of data between 2020 and 2026.