Global mobile broadband subscriptions will double before the end of the year, according to telecoms giant Ericsson.

The Stockholm, Sweden-based company noted the volume of these lines surpassed the half-a-billion mark in 2010 and predicted this figure will reach one billion in 2011.

Asia Pacific customers will be major drivers of this growth, the organisation claimed, with around 400 million of these broadband lines set to be active in the region.

North America and western Europe, meanwhile, will each have more than 200 million mobile broadband connections.

Ericsson said the adoption of the technology has accelerated as a result of the increasing popularity of smartphones, laptops and tablets.

"By 2015, Ericsson believes mobile broadband subscriptions will top 3.8 billion, with 95 per cent driven by HSPA, CDMA and LTE networks," it added.

In the UK, network operators such as O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone offer mobile broadband packages.

This news comes after Ericsson revealed last summer that mobile data traffic had tripled in just 12 months.

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