Artificial intelligence is also taking over mobile devices

New GSMA data shows that there were 4.7 billion mobile internet users in the world at the end of 2023, or about 58 percent of the world's population.

Mobile technologies and services accounted for 5.4 percent of global GDP in 2023, with revenues of about $5.7 trillion and nearly 5.5 billion people using them, according to data published by GSMA. Today, on the first day of the World Mobile Congress (MWC) Barcelona.

Opening congress, director general of “GMSA” Mats Granried said 65 percent of the world's mobile connections are carried out through mobile operators.

The success of operators is reflected in how much they manage to find new sources of revenue, improved user experience, but also savings in capital and operational investments.

GSMA predicts that by 2025, mobile operators will have to spend about $1.1 trillion on capital investments, primarily on 5G, which is expected to be launched in about 30 new markets, mainly in Africa and Asia.

It is important to unblock the full potential of 5G, as it is not yet used in much of the world, Granrid said.

He praised as progress that operators are increasing the commercial capacity of the 5G network, but estimated that this is not enough. The important trend marked the private network 5G, which was launched or tested by about 30 percent of operators by the end of 2022, with this number doubling at the end of 2023.

New GSMA data shows that there were 4.7 billion worldwide mobile internet users at the end of 2023, or about 58 percent of the world's population, about two billion more than in 2015. But there is a digital vacuum, so a mobile phone, because about three billion people still live in areas without access to mobile services, even though they are covered by networks for which the main reasons are general or digital illiteracy of people and poverty.

He's a big trend

Artificial intelligence is a major tendency for the entire industry, which is the most talked about in the MWC, whether it's justified and useful or not, or it's “overplayed” and how and when different industries can accept it in the light of regulations and other issues.

It will be discussed in the years to come, as well as other challenges.

The cards are also “Sim” (Electronal SIM cards), intelligent mobility through linked electric vehicles, the commercialisation of fears, and the digitalisation of railways, as well as a strong presence of mobile technology in the financial, sports and entertainment industry.