Tag: Mobile Economy

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, both economically and socially, technology adoption remains one of the defining factors in human progress. There is a noticeable rise over the past years in the percentage of people in the emerging and developing nations who say that they use the internet and own a smartphone. And while people …

2018 was the biggest year for mobile yet, with 194 billion mobile downloads worldwide in 2018 and a global app downloads exceeded $194 billion in 2018, up 35% from 2016. App Annie, the leading global provider for mobile data and analytics, has released its annual “The State of Mobile in 2019 report” — the most …

Human behavior analysis through smartphone devices has been an active field for more than a decade and there are still a lot of key aspects to be addressed with the emergence of smartphones, mobile devices turned into small personal computers, used for all kinds of applications, ranging from communication devices such as (email, text messaging, …

By mid of 2018, there were 381 million unique subscribers across the Middle East and North Africa region, accounting for 64% of the population. Despite there is an average of annual subscriber growth of 4% over the last four years, the MENA region remains the second least penetrated region in the world. GSMA Intelligence has …

Mobile has a greater reach than any other technology, with over 5 billion people were connected to mobile services in 2017. The number of unique mobile subscribers worldwide is expected to reach 5.9 billion by 2025, equivalent to 71% of the world’s population. Mobile internet adoption will increasingly become the key metric, with 3.3 billion …

Europe is the most highly penetrated mobile region in the world. As of year-end 2017, 85% of the European population – 465 million people – subscribed to mobile services just above North America and CIS. The total addressable market for the region’s mobile operators is approaching saturation point, with the largest mobile markets – France …

By the second quarter of 2018, there were 442 million unique mobile subscribers across Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for 68% of the population. Despite the slowing mobile subscriber growth in recent years, Latin America and the Caribbean still has substantial room for growth. The region will account for 10% of all new subscribers …

The smartphone today is the most popular point of access to the Internet for the majority of Arab users. Phones have surpassed desktop or laptop computers in terms of time spent accessing the internet in the Arab World daily. The year-on-year usage growth of mobile subscriptions in the Arab world is projected to slow down …