In 2017, 5.1 billion people around the world will be mobile phone users. Asia, the region that will see the most growth, is already home to the most mobile phone users. Some 2.4 billion people in Asia use mobile phones, growing to 2.9 billion by 2017.
There's almost no surprise, in that regard. "Everybody" will use mobiles.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
5 Billion Mobile Phone Users in 2017
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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