Mobility

• [New] The new research presented in the Mobile Payment Authentication: Biometrics, Regulation & Market Forecasts 2021-2025 report found that fingerprint sensors will feature on 93% of biometrically equipped smartphones by 2025.
• [New] As the world takes action to reduce emissions from transport and deliver new forms of mobility, such as hydrogen powered vehicles, it will need new and better electric motor technologies.
• [New] As big as the gig economy is now, the Pew Research Center predicts it will growth even faster as more people become familiar with using mobile devices to arrange for personal services and to buy and sell products.
• [New] A new study from Juniper Research, Mobile Payment Authentication: Biometrics, Regulation & Market Forecasts 2021-2025 has found that the number of users of software-based facial recognition to secure payments will exceed 1.4 billion globally by 2025, from just 671 million in 2020.
• [New] By 2025, the data of usage per capita in 5G-leading regions is projected to reach 100 GB, and ToB applications will be even more diversified than ToC services.
• [New] Apple Pay users could be able to make contactless payments and other transactions with merchants or transit providers without having to manually select the correct payment, rewards or transit card or other digital credential from within their mobile wallet.
• [New] In 2021, organisations will increase their digitalisation processes using social media, web sites, mobile phones, and cloud.
• [New] Gartner forecasts the highest growth, on a global scale, will come from devices such as laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile phones and enterprise software (up 10.8%) as organisations shift their focus to providing a more comfortable, innovative and productive environment for their workforce.
• [New] Honda and Verizon are researching how 5G and mobile edge computing might improve safety for today's connected vehicles and the future's autonomous ones.
• [New] With T-Mobile Hometown, the Un-carrier plans to build hundreds of new retail stores in small towns all across America over the next two years.
• [New] With mobile phone ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa alone expected to reach half a billion in 2021, digital services offered via text messaging can reach even the most remote village.
• [New] Total mobile data traffic is expected to rise by a decent growth rate of 5% over the next six years, reaching around 136 EB/month by the end of 2024.
• [New] Hyundai is introducing a digital payment service that will allow users to pay recharging fees automatically through a mobile app.
• [New] Ericsson Digital Services offers a cloud native dual-mode 5G Core solution for smarter networks to drive smarter business, allowing communications service providers to offer a multitude of new business opportunities for mobile users and industries.
• [New] We hope that T-Mobile reconsiders its decision to shut down the CDMA network prematurely so Boost subscribers will not be impacted and Dish can continue providing consumers with competitive choices.
• [New] The TV provider-turned-mobile operator is all bent out of shape about rival T-Mobile USA's plans to shut down its CDMA network at the start of 2022, the very network that supports its Boost Mobile customers.
• The market for alternative ownership models is expected to grow from $276bn to $1.084bn in Europe, USA and China by 2035 - led by Europe with $549bn vs. China $362bn given higher consumer prices in mobility and value captured per km in EU.
• A mobile app-based certification system, by itself, is incomplete and will prove to be ineffective on a global scale as much of the world's population still does not own a smartphone.
• Gartner forecasts the highest growth will come from devices such as laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile phones and enterprise software (up 10.8%) as organisations shift their focus to providing a more comfortable, innovative and productive environment for their workforce.
• Innovative Financial Initiatives for Africa will help close adaptation finance gaps, enhance access to existing finance and mobilize new public and private sector investment.
• By 2025, the research firm projects, 50.1% of U.S. smartphone users 14 and older will be using their devices to make payments that they might have made in the past with cash or plastic.

Last updated: 18 April 2021