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The Growth Rate For Mobile Internet Subscribers Has Stalled Across the World


An anonymous reader shares a report: A recent survey from Global System for Mobile Communications Association Intelligence (GSMA), the research wing of a U.K.-based organization that represents mobile operators around the world, found that 4.6 billion people across the globe are now connected to mob...

From 2015 to 2021, the survey consistently found over 200 million coming online through mobile devices around the world each year. GSMA collects data by surveying a nationally representative sample of people in each country, and then it correlates the results with similar studies. But the rate of new users has also slowed in countries including Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Pakistan -- where only 37%, 34%, and 24% of the population currently use mobile internet.

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