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The telecoms body, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting over 750 operators with nearly 400 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, said positive decisions that help drive the availability of spectrum are crucial for governments and regulators that want to realise high-performance networks and services, particularly for 5G.
In addition, GSMA said owing to the instrumental roles played by mobile smartphones during the COVID-19 pandemic period, mobile technologies and services generated $4.4 trillion of economic value added (5.1 per cent of GDP) globally in the year 2020.
Mobile phone Mobile technology is expected to play a key role as governments look to reinvigorate their economies and build a more inclusive society post-pandemic, the Global System for Mobile telecommunications Association (GSMA) has said.
It added that nearly half a billion new subscribers will be added by 2025, taking the total number of subscribers to 5.7 billion (70 per cent of the global population).
Mobile Internet users, now 51 per cent of the world’s population at 4.0 billion, will reach 60 per cent or five billion by 2025, the GSMA predicts.
It said that in 2020, 225 million people connected to the mobile Internet for the first time, bringing the total to over four billion people (51 per cent of the global population).
According to the body, in its “Mobile Economy 2021” report, successful 5G networks and services depend on a significant amount of new harmonised mobile spectrum.
According to the report, by the end of 2020, 5.2 billion people subscribed to mobile services, representing 67 per cent of the global population.
To realise this, GSMA said governments need to direct stimulus funds towards digital development; support financial sustainability of the mobile sector; remove barriers to network deployment; ensure fair competition; harmonise EMF limits; establish balanced policies for personal data..
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