GSMA on the Global Mobile Market 2015
Text and Graphics Source: GSMA Mobile Economy 2015 [82 page PDF Report] gsmamobileeconomy.com;
¹ Created: February 26, 2015
>> The mobile industry continues to scale rapidly, with a total of 3.6 billion unique mobile subscribers at the end of 2014. Half of the world’s population now has a mobile subscription—up from just one in five 10 years ago. An additional one billion subscribers are predicted by 2020, taking the global penetration rate to approximately 60%. There were 7.1 billion global SIM connections at the end of 2014, and a further 243 million machine-to-machine (M2M) connections. ...
... The global mobile subscriber base increased by just over 5% in 2014. Developed markets are growing more slowly as penetration rates approach levels close to saturation. For example, in Europe and North America, unique subscriber growth was below 1% in 2014. At the other end of the spectrum, Sub-Saharan Africa was still the world’s most under-penetrated region with subscriber growth at nearly 12%. <<
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