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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岁的孩子隔着操场互发短信，或是在幼儿园的小教室里打电话，听起来似乎是挺搞笑的一幕，但是随着移动时代的迅速发展，这一幕将成为不可避免的现实。
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.
瑞典通讯业巨头爱立信公司（Ericsson）近日发布了一份移动业报告称，到2020年，全球不低于6岁的人口中，90%都将拥有移动电话。据爱立信预测，届时全球智能手机用户总数将达到61亿人。而目前全球的智能手机用户为27亿。
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岁的孩子并非只是用从父母那儿“退休”的设备玩玩游戏和应用而已。该报告的执行编辑帕特里克o塞瓦尔对《企业家》杂志表示，这个数字是根据联网的活跃手机的数量计算出来的。
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.
该报告还有很多其它惊人的发现。爱立信公司指出，智能手机新用户增长最快的地区是印度和中国。此外，视频功能是耗费移动数据流量最多、也是增长最快的部分，占所有4G网络的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.
最后爱立信公司还表示，随着下一代移动网络标准——5G网络的商用，到2020年，移动用户的增长速度还会更快，就像4G用户的增长速度要明显超过3G一样。
