Mobile Tech

• [New] In 2021, organisations will increase their digitalisation processes using social media, web sites, mobile phones, and cloud.
• [New] With mobile phone ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa alone expected to reach half a billion in 2021, digital services offered via text messaging can reach even the most remote village.
• [New] Hyundai is introducing a digital payment service that will allow users to pay recharging fees automatically through a mobile app.
• [New] Ericsson Digital Services offers a cloud native dual-mode 5G Core solution for smarter networks to drive smarter business, allowing communications service providers to offer a multitude of new business opportunities for mobile users and industries.
• [New] We hope that T-Mobile reconsiders its decision to shut down the CDMA network prematurely so Boost subscribers will not be impacted and Dish can continue providing consumers with competitive choices.
• [New] The TV provider-turned-mobile operator is all bent out of shape about rival T-Mobile USA's plans to shut down its CDMA network at the start of 2022, the very network that supports its Boost Mobile customers.
• [New] The number of devices and connections is growing faster than the number of Internet users, and it is estimated that over 70% of the global population will have mobile connectivity by 2023.
• [New] Apps like Duo Mobile, Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator will send a four-digit code to your phone or email before you log in, in order to secure accounts like your bank account or work email.
• [New] ARM expects ARMv9 - based chips to deliver more than 30% performance [improvement] in the next two mobile [phone] and infrastructure generations on industry standard benchmarks like SPECint.
• [New] In 2021, the global annual cellular data usage is projected to reach roughly 650 thousand petabytes, with approximately 639 thousand petabytes coming from the use of mobile handsets, in other words, mobile phones.
• [New] The cross-border operation of vehicles is expected to enable global mobility services that benefit from personnel working in various time zones.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Last updated: 18 April 2021