Mobility

• [New] The market for alternative ownership models is expected to grow from $276bn to $1.084bn in Europe, USA and China by 2035 - led by Europe with $549bn vs. China $362bn given higher consumer prices in mobility and value captured per km in EU.
• [New] A mobile app-based certification system, by itself, is incomplete and will prove to be ineffective on a global scale as much of the world's population still does not own a smartphone.
• [New] Gartner forecasts the highest growth will come from devices such as laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile phones and enterprise software (up 10.8%) as organisations shift their focus to providing a more comfortable, innovative and productive environment for their workforce.
• [New] Innovative Financial Initiatives for Africa will help close adaptation finance gaps, enhance access to existing finance and mobilize new public and private sector investment.
• [New] By 2025, the research firm projects, 50.1% of U.S. smartphone users 14 and older will be using their devices to make payments that they might have made in the past with cash or plastic.
• [New] The U.S. is now the second-biggest market with $465.1 billion worth of mobile payment transactions in 2020, a number that's on track to hit $698 billion in 2023.
• [New] The increase in smartphone usage has presented marketers and business owners worldwide with a rare opportunity to reach out to new markets by optimizing mobile applications.
• [New] Further expanding access to mobile devices in poor regions of the world would allow the gap between the richest and poorest families to be better calculated, and could also help measure the success of newly implemented policies and programs.
• [New] T-Mobile and Lumen Technologies plan to expand their existing relationship to allow access to Lumen's Edge Computing platform over T-Mobile's industry leading 5G network, enabling enterprises to build, manage and scale applications across distributed environments.
• [New] Tuk Tuk Life, with the support of the Norwegian electric vehicle company Infinite Mobility, will attempt to break several world records by driving a solar electric tuk tuk around the world.
• [New] Verizon's Private 5G Edge platform will give customers a reliable, secure, high bandwidth, low latency connection to AWS services, APIs and tools running on AWS Outposts.
• [New] LG cited 6G as an area of focus: Moving forward, LG will continue to leverage its mobile expertise and develop mobility-related technologies such as 6G to help further strengthen competitiveness in other business areas.
• [New] Private 5G MEC from AWS and Verizon brings ultra-low latency to dedicated, closed, on-premises environments for use cases such as autonomous mobile robots, quality assurance, and hazard alerting.
• [New] Factories, warehouses, school campuses and large businesses will be able to use Verizon Private Edge services on-premises to support low-latency use cases like autonomous mobile robots and hazard condition monitoring.
• [New] By adding about 1 GHz of new mmWave spectrum every three years, the mobile operators will be able to keep up with data demand and maintain their data traffic density at a level of about 0.1 Gbps/km2 / MHz through about 2027.
• [New] Mobile commerce revenues in India will be close to 80% of e-commerce revenues in 2022.
• [New] Global mobile commerce revenues are expected to account for 53.9% of all e-commerce revenues by 2021.
• [New] Hong Kong mobile operators will be required to reach a minimum population coverage of 90% within five years for the 700 MHz, 850 MHz and 2.5 GHz to 2.6 GHz frequencies allocations.
• Mobile commerce will be only one percentage point below half of U.S. retail e-commerce revenue, only to surpass it the following year.
• In 2021, global m-commerce sales are expected to reach a new high of CHF 2.32 billion and account for 67.2% of total e-commerce sales.

Last updated: 11 April 2021