The total number of subscriptions is expected to rise to 1.1 billion by 2015 from 600m today.
By 2002, the total number of subscriptions created since launch was stated as 150,000.
About 20percentt of the world's population owns a cellphone, Ericsson said, for a total of 1.28 billion subscriptions.
AT&T's wireless unit added two million subscribers in the third quarter, an increase of 47 percent, for a total of 65.7 million subscriptions.
By the end of this year, the report says, the number of mobile broadband connections worldwide will rise to 2.1 billion, nearly three times the total of fixed-line subscriptions.
All in all, domestic streaming reached nearly 22 million subscriptions, adding a total of 610K, while domestic DVD subscriptions came in at 11.7 million, with international subscriptions at 1.86 million.
Over all, direct subscriptions ended the quarter at 1.6 million, with total subscriptions of 3.2 million when those through other companies are included.
The FT has more than 500,000 digital subscribers, accounting for more than 70% of its total subscription base, while the Nikkei, with annual sales of about £1bn, has 430,000 online subscribers.
In recent years, the telecommunication sector has blossomed, mainly characterized by an involvement of multinational companies which include MTN Uganda, Airtel, Uganda Telecom, Africell Uganda, Smile Telecom, K2 Telecom, Smart Telecom, and Vodafone Uganda, with total subscription of over 20 million (Hawthorne et al. 2016; Ward and Zheng 2016).
There's also a basic reward level for those photographers actively contributing to PicHit.Me (which means uploading one photo per month and logging in more than 10 times per month) whereby contributors equally share 20% of the total subscription revenue.
There is, however, a one-time system configuration fee, which the company claims is typically less than 10percentt of the total amount of the annual subscription.
