Innovation and investment by the mobile industry continue to have an enormous impact on the lives of billions of people around the world. Mobile doesn\u2019t just deliver connectivity, it empowers people through an ever-growing range of mobile-enabled services.<\/p>\n
Currently there are five billion unique mobile subscribers globally, which means that more than two-thirds of the global population is now connected to a mobile service. By the end of the decade, almost three-quarters of the global population will have a mobile subscription, with around one billion new subscribers added over this period. <\/p>\n
The GSMA leads several programmes in key growth areas that present significant benefits for consumers and clear opportunities for mobile operators. From supporting the development of mobile identity solutions to helping operators prepare for a 5G future, these initiatives are laying the foundations of an increasingly connected, mobile world.<\/p>\n
Each of the initiatives covered on the following pages has its own public policy considerations, and relates to one or more of the public policy topics presented in this handbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Innovation and investment by the mobile industry continue to have an enormous impact on the lives of billions of people around the world. Mobile doesn\u2019t just deliver connectivity, it empowers people through an ever-growing range of mobile-enabled services. Currently there are five billion unique mobile subscribers globally, which means that more than two-thirds of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"parent":15172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-mph-single.php","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n