Mobile Tech

• [New] The card brand plans to use its network scale in the U.K. to enroll billers and payers for B2B and C2B transactions that are accessible via a mobile app or a corporate billing system.
• [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] 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] 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] Omnispace's vision is 'one global network' that will combine the reach of a non-geostationary orbit satellite constellation with the capacity of the world's leading mobile wireless carrier networks.
• [New] Mobile device buyers predicted the increasing importance of foldable tablets over the next five years and the continued rise of rugged device as critical tools for mobile workforces.
• [New] The Dromos Autonomous Network Transit approach offers a world-leading innovative transport solution for CAM, which will define Cambridgeshire and Peterborough as a pioneer in future mobility.
• [New] Vodafone brings the necessary mobile technology for enriched customer communication and 5G technology, and together they will work to create new applications including wireless ATMs, video and mobile services, and virtual reality tools.
• [New] Most smart speakers are platform agnostic, so they will work with both Android and iOS devices, but the Apple HomePod Mini is not much use without an Apple mobile device to set it up.
• Household across the UK will see a range of bills increase from today with prices for council tax, mobile phones and more.
• Analysts at Jefferies analyzed location data from 40 million mobile devices in the U.S. to provide further evidence that surgical volumes could be set to improve.
• Although a significant number of people on the African continent have no access to internet connectivity, there is steady growth, and it is anticipated that at least 475 million users will be able to access the internet via their mobile phones by 2025.
• The revenue generated by mobility services, which integrate different transport services (including buses, trains and taxis) into a single app, would exceed $52 billion by 2027, up from $405 million in 2020.
• Mobile data service revenues will grow at a 6.6% CAGR over 2020-2025, in line with the continued rise in mobile Internet subscriptions and growing adoption of 5G services that yield higher average revenue per user.
• The overall mobile service revenues will grow at a 3.5% CAGR during 2020-2025, driven by growth in mobile data service revenues, which will offset the decline from mobile voice and messaging service revenues during the forecast period.
• Hong Kong's highly saturated mobile service market will register further growth in the mobile subscription penetration from 238% in 2020 to 268% in 2025, driven by the continued rise in mobile Internet subscriptions and rising adoption of machine-to-machine / Internet of Things services.
• In just a few years, more people will use a smartphone to access the internet than a desktop PC or laptop.
• NEW MOBILITY AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IMPACTS ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN METRO VANCOUVER opportunity to experience new mobility services and technologies in a temporary show - and - tell demonstration.
• In Toronto, customers using Lyft could make FKLK connections with the Toronto Transit Commission or GO Transit by directing their mobility service to accept a pickup or drop-off transit location.
• Global phone sales, including landline phones, mobile phones and smartphones, are expected to jump by 5.7% YoY and generate $512.1bn or almost 50% of total revenues in 2021.
• Operators will continue to accelerate their rollouts of 5G networks in 2021 while governments across the globe clear additional spectrum to accommodate more mobile users and data.
• Companies in at least a dozen sectors, including mobility, are currently reinventing themselves as vast ecosystems or global networks that could generate around $60 trillion in revenue by 2025.
• To accelerate hydrogen's widespread take-up, Toyota will focus on hydrogen clusters or eco-systems in European centres where a local infrastructure is supporting transport fleets and mobility services.

Last updated: 11 April 2021