Theme: Mobilising the economy, monetizing the mobile sectorMobile is the dominant form of telephony in much of the world. Mobile is also a major economic force both as an industrial sector in its own right and as a facilitator of businesses processes and markets in general. In developing economies where mobile is often the only widely available form of telecommunications, it has created whole new markets and, for the first time, makes possible a money-based economy with bank-like services for previously ‘unbanked’ populations. In more developed regions Smartphones have put the Internet into the hands, literally, of everyone and every company.
Issue: Europe I 2012 Article no.: 3 Topic: Mobile communications – a key European…