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Asia Pac – Active Mobile SIMs by Handset Type

Smartphone Penetration Nears 75% Across AsiaPac There will be more than 2.5 billion smartphone connections across the Asia Pacific region by the end of this year, according to MEF Data. Of the more than 4.36 billion active mobile handset SIMs in the region, 74% will connect to smartphones, with a…
Myra Bachtiar
January 3, 2024

Populations

83% of over 15s will be mobile end 2023 A total 83% of the world's population aged 15 and over will be active users of mobile phones by the end of this year. According to the latest research by MEF, usage is highest in Europe where 98% of over-15s will…
John Beshara
November 6, 2023

Mobile Phone Users

Mobile phone users near 5.5bn end 2023 The total number of people across the world that own or use a mobile phone will rise to almost 5.47 billion by the end of this year, according to the latest research by MEF, up 2.6% on the end of 2022. At the…
John Beshara
November 6, 2023

Rise of the machines

M2M accounts for almost 25% of total mobile cellular connections Cellular M2M will comprise over 23% of all mobile cellular connections by the end of this year, up from 20% in 2021. According to the latest research conducted by MEF, there will be over 11 billion mobile cellular connections wordlwide…
John Beshara
November 6, 2023
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