Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Mobile Internet: Smartphones for Everyone?” report to their offering.
With the smartphone market now approaching saturation in all developed internet economies attention is now turning to developing and emerging economies. The bottom line is will mobile really go all the way – that is, will everyone really have mobile, one day?
We estimate that at the end of 2015 a total of 2.6 billion individuals were active smartphone users. Given that the worldwide population at the end of 2015 was 7.3 billion then this implies a penetration level of 2.6/7.3 billion, or 35.6%.
In addition, the United Nations (UN) has been making excellent progress towards its stated goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This suggests that the underlying economics will support a smartphone penetration level approaching 100%: even the world’s poorest will be able to get online, eventually.
At least, such is the narrative used by those who believe that practically everyone will have a smartphone, one day.
This research’s position is different: based on 2015 figures our analysis is that the long-term addressable market for mobile is around 4.1 billion, not 7.3 billion and the poorest 2 billion may never have mobile internet – where never’ means many decades.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Introduction
– Global poverty levels have been falling for 30 years
– But global poverty levels will not fall to zero
2. Classic economic analysis
– Situation 1: Mature Mobile Markets
– Top End Smartphones
– Mid-range Smartphones
– Budget Smartphones
– Basicphones
– Situation 2: Unserved Mobile Markets
3. A new economic model
4. Summary
For more information about this report visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/x8txw9/mobile_internet
