200 million
There’s definitely a gender gap… 200 million fewer women have a mobile phone than men.
4.7 billion How many people use mobile? The number of unique mobile subscribers stood at 4.7 billion people at the end of 2015 – that’s 63 percent of the entire global population.
1.4 billion Want to guess how many new subscribers there have been in the five years between 2010 and 2015? 1.4 billion subscribers were added. For some perspective, that’s almost three times the population of Europe in 2015
7.3 billion No wonder people describe it as a connected world – there are now 7.3 billion mobile connections.
1 billion The need for speed is moving faster every year, as the number of 4G connections doubled last year and now reaches one billion connections.
1 in 3 4G subscriptions are on track to reach one-third of all mobile connections by 2020.
$3.1 trillion There’s definitely money in mobile (in case you had any doubts)– the mobile industry contributed $3.1 trillion to the world economy last year – that’s the equivalent of 4.2 percent of global GDP
45%
We’ve come a long way since the first iPhone was launched – smartphones accounted for 45 percent of mobile connections in 2015, up from just 8 percent in 2010.
+600% The amount of mobile data traffic will increase by six times between 2015 and 2020. Six!
$430 billion The mobile industry supported (directly or indirectly) 32 million jobs in 2015 and contributed $430 billion to public funding in various forms of taxes.
Article originally published on Amdocs Voices.