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MEF Data: Mobile Payments – Growing Fast

Get key insights from MEF’s 6th Global Smartphone User Survey – this week, looking at Mobile Payments (pre- Covid-19). The world of mobile payments is showing three different clusters of activity. Developing economies are enjoying faster adoption (China 60%;India 46%; Brazil 38% and South Africa 36%). Most of Europe and…

MEFJuly 31, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence – Friend or foe?

Stein Hansen, founder and CEO of OpenSky Consulting, explores the state of artificial intelligence and the companies and stakeholders coming to grips with its countless applications. How will AI be used to enhance our daily lives and what risks does it pose when mishandled or abused?

MEFJuly 23, 2020

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MEF Data: 10 things you need to know about Smartphone users in 2020

MEF recently published the 6th Global Smartphone User Survey. MEF CEO, Dario Betti hosted a briefing to highlight some of his main takeaways from the report. Check out the video from the briefing and Dario's top 10 key things to understand about smartphone users in 2020 The Smartphone is the…

Dario BettiJuly 21, 2020

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MEF Data: Mobile Delivery Services – Taxi and food globally

Get key insights from MEF’s 6th Global Smartphone User Survey – this week, looking at Mobile Fitness Apps. The promising market for health applications on smartphones has seen little growth (the survey did not include Covid-19 pandemic period). Tracing applications as well as other medical apps will possibly bring back…

MEFJuly 8, 2020

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MEF Data: Mobile Fitness Apps – no real growth in the market

MEFJune 24, 2020

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More mobile mergers to be allowed in the EU

MEF regulatory advisor Serafino Abate looks at the EU General Court’s recent decision taking apart the approach of the Directorate-General for Competition on mobile operators mergers. The number of networks competing in a market could lower from 4 to 3. Should we expect more mobile mergers and what could it…

MEFJune 24, 2020

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MEF Data: Global Digital content consumption at peak maturity

The most common digital service category among mobile users remains digital content. However, the content area appears to have reached a plateau with no increase in penetration from the previous year. Brazil has the most users accessing film and music via smartphones (69%). France is the number two country in…

MEFJune 17, 2020

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MEF Data: Mobile Banking sees big jump in user penetration

Get key insights from MEF’s 6th Global Smartphone User Survey – this week, looking at Mobile Banking worldwide. Mobile Banking has seen a big jump in penetration of its services (and that was before the impact of the COVID19 pandemic). Users in developing economies are generally the most active. Presumably,…

MEFJune 10, 2020

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Digital Gap: older women are left out of the Smartphone Economy

It is time to act on inclusion: the mobile industry is leaving behind an important part of the population: the older, and older women in particular. The recently published MEF 6th Global Smartphone User Survey showed the digital gap is wide for gender and age. While 94% of 16-to-24-year-olds have…

Dario BettiJune 3, 2020

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Is the lack of clear regulation hindering AI-powered technological progress?

MEF regulatory advisor Serafino Abate shares conclusions from recent discussion held by Members at a workshop on the possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and its regulation. In recent months, we have heard many calls for regulators, legislators and policy makers to get their act together and come up with…

MEFMay 28, 2020

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MEF Data: Mobile Payments – Growing Fast

Artificial Intelligence – Friend or foe?

MEF Data: 10 things you need to know about Smartphone users in 2020

MEF Data: Mobile Delivery Services – Taxi and food globally

MEF Data: Mobile Fitness Apps – no real growth in the market

More mobile mergers to be allowed in the EU

MEF Data: Global Digital content consumption at peak maturity

MEF Data: Mobile Banking sees big jump in user penetration

Digital Gap: older women are left out of the Smartphone Economy

Is the lack of clear regulation hindering AI-powered technological progress?

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