Smartphones, tablets, older mobile phones and laptops «multiply like rabbits»…
The number that was made public by the company GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), which operates at an international level with mobile device managers, regarding how many such devices exist right now across the entire planet is incredible!
Seven billion, twenty-two million (7.22 billion), mobile devices in the form of tablets, smartphones or any other electronic mobile device such as laptops or older mobile phones, are circulating among us and multiplying at a speed that surpasses the multiplication of the human race…
The human population multiplies at a speed of "two people per second» or 1.2% annually, while mobile devices multiply five times more than the Earth's population.
What’s happening, though? Do all people have more than one mobile phone? No, the responsible researchers answer. At least half of the world’s population does not have any mobile device, but some people in the developed world simply have many more than one SIM card.
However, beyond this factor, GSMA studies have shown that there is also the factor of devices that connect to other devices, meaning we have about 250 million machine‑to‑machine connections «machine‑to‑machine».
Kevin Kimberlin, head of a startup company dealing with mobile devices, said that there is no other form of technology that has impacted the human race as much as mobile devices have in the last thirty years.
It is noted that the US Census Bureau has estimated the world population at 7.19 to 7.2 billion people.
