By mid of 2018, there were 381 million unique subscribers across the Middle East and North Africa region, accounting for 64% of the population. Despite there is an average of annual subscriber growth of 4% over the last four years, the MENA region remains the second least penetrated region in the world. GSMA Intelligence has …

Mobile has a greater reach than any other technology, with over 5 billion people were connected to mobile services in 2017. The number of unique mobile subscribers worldwide is expected to reach 5.9 billion by 2025, equivalent to 71% of the world’s population. Mobile internet adoption will increasingly become the key metric, with 3.3 billion …

Europe is the most highly penetrated mobile region in the world. As of year-end 2017, 85% of the European population – 465 million people – subscribed to mobile services just above North America and CIS. The total addressable market for the region’s mobile operators is approaching saturation point, with the largest mobile markets – France …

By the second quarter of 2018, there were 442 million unique mobile subscribers across Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for 68% of the population. Despite the slowing mobile subscriber growth in recent years, Latin America and the Caribbean still has substantial room for growth. The region will account for 10% of all new subscribers …

The Asia Pacific has been the biggest contributor to global subscriber growth in recent years and still has room for growth. However, growth has reached its peak and has started to taper out. There is a growing need across the region to look beyond mobile adoption and towards migration to faster networks and increased usage …

The Asia Pacific holds more than half the world’s mobile subscribers – mostly in China and India -. The region also holds the top 3 markets worldwide in terms of 4G penetration (South Korea 78% – Japan 69% – Australia 65%). Read the below and take a quick look at the state of the mobile …