The Federal Government (FG) is looking forward to partnering with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) in a bid to drive economic growth in Nigeria.

Mobile connectivity has helped in fueling the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the globe.

HYDRA-headed challenges, including affordability and usability, have unconnected 61 per cent of people in Africa from mobile Internet services.This is seen as a huge threat to efforts to digitise economies in the region, including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and others.

A dozen mobile operator signed up to device re-use and recycling targets set by the GSMA as the industry association estimates that $8 billion worth of valuable materials were stuck in abandoned handsets across the globe.

Emerging markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America will see the biggest increase in smartphone adoption, helped by increasing affordability.

In 2022, mobile technologies and services generated five per cent of global GDP, a contribution that amounted to $5.2 trillion of economic value added. The greatest benefits came from productivity effects, which reached $3.5 trillion, followed by mobile operators, which generated $650 billion.

In 2022, mobile technologies and services generated five per cent of global GDP, a contribution that amounted to $5.2 trillion of economic value added.

The Global System for Mobile Telecommunications Association (GSMA) has said 5G connections would double over the next two years, expedited by technological innovations and new network deployments in more than 30 countries in 2023 alone. Of the new networks to be deployed in 2023, it is expected that 15 will be 5G Standalone networks.

Mobile Telecommunications Association (GSMA) has called for more investments in Fifth-Generation (5G) technology for digital transformation across all sectors.

While it has hailed the commitment of telecommunications operators in European countries for maximizing the use of renewable energy in their networks, the Global System for Mobile telecommunications Association (GSMA) is worried that such has not been replicated in Africa.

Across the globe, about two billion mobile phones are sold yearly; this is according to the telecoms group, the Global System for Mobile telecommunications Association (GSMA).

In 2021, mobile technologies and services generated around eight per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan (SSA) Africa countries, a contribution that amounted to almost $140 billion...