That's one in five of all mobile users.
The UMTS Forum has confined that global connections to the 3GPP family of networks - WCDMA, HPSA/HSPA+ and LTE - has hit ten figures.
The figure also includes around 50 million subscriptions to China's TD-SCDMA networks and 225 million CDMA2000 1xEV-DO subscribers, mainly in Asia and North America.
It's a major milestone and one that coincides with a huge surge in demand for data services on mobile.
Which can only grow stronger, of course, as networks get faster. Indeed, of 385 of 400 3G operators have now implemented HSPA while a further 140 are using HSPA+.
Commercial LTE deployments now number almost 50, with over 150 operators committed to launch the technology. There are currently nearly 10m LTE subscribers.
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"The commercial success of 3G around the world is unarguable, with 3GPP/UMTS as the leading standard", said UMTS Forum chairman Jean-Pierre Bienaimé.
"Capitalising on that success, 3GPP/LTE will become the global wireless standard, around which current mobile technologies will converge for the benefits of customers in terms of roaming, interoperability, and a seamless mobile broadband experience".
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