Mobile Tech

• [New] Mobile traffic is expected to grow 3-fold from 2016 to 2021, pushing the number of mobile devices to the extreme (with 107 devices per km2 in dense areas, up from 106 in 5G) and more than 125 billion devices worldwide by 2030.
• [New] In 2019, revenue generated on mobile devices globally accounted for 54% of revenue and 70% of traffic and is expected to grow significantly in 2020.
• [New] With an estimated 27.7 million mobile POS devices in use by 2021, Bluefin argues that additional security to defend private data will be required for all businesses, regardless of their sales hardware preference.
• [New] 73% of e-commerce sales will take place on a mobile device by the end of 2021.
• [New] The market for mobility as a service is expected to grow by more than $180 billion in 2019-2023.
• By 2025, the world will reach 1.8 billion 5G connections-led by Developed Asia and North America, two regions that could each see nearly half of mobile connections operating on 5G networks.
• While the Asia-Pacific region is leading the way in mobile gaming adoption, with 76% of gamers playing mobile games, North America is quickly catching up, and the 52% of US and Canada gamers playing mobile games in 2019 could reach 56% by the end of 2020.
• The number of stalkerware attacks on mobile devices increased 50% over the last year, showing an upward and continued trend in the emerging threat.
• By 2025, 5G revenue is expected to represent 44% of global operator billed revenue owing to rapid migration of 4G mobile subscribers to 5G networks and new business use cases enabled by 5G technology.
• Covid-19 will boost worldwide revenue on content consumed on mobile phones by 28% in 2020.
• OFFCU members deposited $7.8 million into accounts via mobile devices last year, but mobile check deposits at the current pace are predicted to exceed a record $13.5 million by the end of the year.
• The Scottish Government has today announced a new funding package of £4 million, which will be used to establish a new national network of hubs - S5GConnect Hubs - to help accelerate the adoption of ultrafast 5G based mobile (mobile broadband) technology across Scotland.
• The number of mobile devices with GPUs (or AI Chips) will increase from 190 million in 2019 to 1.25 billion by the end of 2022, accounting for 3 out of 4 mobile devices.
• By the end of 2020, eMarketer expects companies in the U.S. to spend over US$ 150 billion on digital ads versus US$ 107 billion on traditional ads, with two-thirds of the ads targeting mobile devices.
• More than 2 billion people now regularly make ecommerce purchases worldwide, and mobile ecommerce has continued to grow - nearly 73% of ecommerce sales are expected to take place on mobile devices by 2021.
• By 2021, people are expected to spend most of their time online using their phones - 155 minutes a day on a mobile phone versus 37 minutes on a computer.
• For the remainder of 2020, organizations that expand remote work functionality will prioritize collaboration software, mobile device management, distance learning educational solutions and security, as well as the infrastructure to scale to support increased capacity.
• Because of the fast development of electric vehicle technology and the increasing demand for electric vehicles, the global market of LIBs is predicted to keep increasing to USD 93.1 billion by 2025.
• The global data usage of the mobile network grows annually, by an approximate factor 10 every 5 years, or around 5 exabyte per month in 2021.
• UK mobile banking would overtake internet banking in 2019, and that by 2023, mobile banking would overtake internet / desktop banking as the most popular means of digital banking.
• The rapid proliferation of mobile phones and other connected devices is further expected to accelerate the demand for memory card and storage devices, thereby expanding the market for data processing electronics applications.
• This year in the U.S., e-commerce spend is expected to reach $666 billion, while 84% of all e-commerce buyers will complete transactions on mobile devices.
• Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) forecasts mobile penetration in sub-Saharan Africa to be 50% by 2025, compared with 44% in 2018: Mobile devices allow farmers to quickly identify pockets of demand and up-to-date prices for their crops.

Last updated: 22 November 2020