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- 3 Jun 2024
Mats Granryd Stepping Down as Director General of the GSMA
The GSMA has announced that Mats Granryd, Director General of the organisation will, as planned, step down from his role after MWC Barcelona 2025. With nine years in the post, and having twice agreed…
- 24 May 2016
GSMA to Expand Remit of Humanitarian Connectivity Charter
Mats Granryd, GSMA director general has outlined the GSMA’s commitment to expanding the footprint of its Humanitarian Connectivity Charter. In his remarks at World Humanitarian Summit, Granryd…
- 22 Nov 2019
GSMA Says WRC-19 Spectrum Treaty Will Open Door to Exciting New 5G Services
The GSMA has welcomed the international spectrum treaty adopted by the World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19), which will unlock the potential for game-changing 5G services around the…
- 12 Mar 2020
GSMA Study Reveals Gender Gap in Mobile Internet Usage
The gender gap in mobile internet usage remains substantial, with over 300 million fewer women than men accessing the Internet from a mobile device in low- and middle-income countries, a new GSMA…
- 27 Jul 2016
GSMA Launches Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund
The GSMA has launched the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund, which will support innovative start-ups in emerging markets and is open to start-ups from and operating in Africa and selected…
- 19 Sept 2016
GSMA, UN, Project Everyone Collaborate to Drive Sustainable Development Goals
The GSMA has announced collaboration with the United Nations and Project Everyone, a non-profit global campaign, to increase awareness of and engagement with the United Nations Sustainable…
- 20 Sept 2016
GSMA Publishes Report Detailing the Mobile Industry’s Impact in Achieving SDGs
At yesterday’s United Nations Private Sector Forum, the GSMA unveiled the ‘2016 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals’, a ground-breaking study that provides a current…
- 20 Oct 2016
GSMA Charts Ways to Reset Competition Policy for Digital Ecosystems
The GSMA has launched the report “Resetting Competition Policy Frameworks for the Digital Ecosystem”. The global study, prepared for the GSMA by CEG, provides a detailed analysis of the current…
- 27 Feb 2017
GSMA Estimates Global Mobile Subscribers to Surpass 5Bn this Year
The number of unique mobile subscribers around the world will surpass 5 billion later this year, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 global edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ report reveals…
- 17 Mar 2017
Unesco, GSMA Champion Women's Online Participation
The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development's Working Group on the Digital Gender Divide, co-chaired by the GSMA and Unesco, has released a report that sets specific recommendations to…
- 19 Apr 2017
World Bank, GSMA Collaborate on Universal Financial Access Initiative
The World Bank Group has welcomed the GSMA, the global body representing nearly 800 mobile operators and 300 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, to its coalition of partners committed to…
- 14 Jun 2017
Mobile Subscribers Worldwide Hits 5Bn
The world’s mobile industry has signed up its 5 billionth unique mobile subscriber, according to real-time data from GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA. The 5 billion milestone means…
- 12 Jul 2017
GSMA Report Shows Excessive Taxation Takes Toll on Mobile Connectivity in SSA
Reducing excessive mobile sector-specific taxation would promote connectivity, economic growth, investment and fiscal stability in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, said the GSMA report. The findings…
- 12 Jul 2017
Africa Leads Global Mobile Money with 140 Schemes in 39 Countries
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than half of all mobile money deployments worldwide and is pioneering a range of new mobile money use cases, according to new GSMA data. The latest ‘State of…
- 14 Jul 2017
GSMA Unveils New ‘Mobile for Development’ Initiatives
At the 2017 Mobile 360 – Africa, the GSMA announced several developments in its Mobile for Development programme, all of which support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The…
- 18 Sept 2017
GSMA Highlights Mobile Industry Progress in Achieving SDGs
The GSMA yesterday published the ‘2017 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals’, at the United Nations General Assembly Week, the second annual study assessing the mobile…
- 26 Feb 2018
World Bank, GSMA Partner to Leverage IOT Big Data for Development
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group announced yesterday that the institution would partner with the GSMA and mobile network operators around the globe to harness big data from the Internet of…
- 27 Feb 2018
Mobile Money Records Over 690 M Accounts Worldwide - GSMA
The GSMA yesterday unveiled its seventh annual ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money’, offering a current snapshot of the mobile money landscape and highlighting the impact that greater…
- 28 Feb 2018
GSMA, ICANN Sign MoU on Internet Governance
The GSMA and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Mobile World Congress being held this week in Barcelona. The MoU aims to…
- 26 Apr 2018
GSMA Marks International Girls in ICT Day with Events Around the World
The GSMA will celebrate the annual ITU International Girls in ICT Day this week with a series of events across its global footprint aimed at encouraging and empowering young women to explore career…
- 24 Sept 2018
GSMA to Showcase Mobile Impact on Sustainable Development @ UNGA
The GSMA will represent the global mobile industry at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) being held in New York this week, advancing the leading role the sector is playing in meeting…
- 22 Nov 2018
MTN, Orange Launch Mobile Money Interoperability to Scale up Mobile Financial Services
Two of Africa’s largest mobile operators and mobile money providers, Orange Group and MTN Group, have announced a joint venture, Mowali (mobile wallet interoperability), to enable interoperable…
- 21 Feb 2019
GSMA Report Highlights Global Role of Intelligent Connectivity
The GSMA yesterday issued a new report, ‘Intelligent Connectivity: How the Combination of 5G, AI, Big Data and IoT Is Set to Change Everything,’ highlighting how 5G networks, artificial intelligence…
- 26 Feb 2019
GSMA Report says Mobile Money Accounts Increased by 20 Per cent in 2018
The GSMA yesterday unveiled its eighth annual ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money’, offering a current snapshot of the mobile money landscape and highlighting the impact that greater…
- 17 Jul 2019
GSMA Signs £38M Funding Partnership with DFID
The GSMA has announced that it has signed a thirty-eight million-pound partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). The ‘Partnership for Inclusion, Innovation and Scale’…
- 24 Sept 2019
Mobile Industry Steps Up Commitment to Delivering Sustainable Development Goals
A new GSMA study shows increased contribution by the mobile industry against all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) over the past year. The 2019 edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Industry…
- 29 Mar 2020
Mobile Money Accounts Breach 1bn Mark
During 2019, mobile money services reached a milestone, surpassing one billion accounts globally. This is according to GSMA, which unveiled the annual “State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money”,…
- 6 Apr 2020
ALTON Debunks Connection of 5G to COVID-19
Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has said that there is no iota of truth that 5G Technology is the cause of the Coronavirus pandemic. Noting that the virus is…
- 4 Dec 2020
GSMA Launches Framework to Improve Digital Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the GSMA is launching the ‘Principles for Driving the Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities’. The Principles aim to further…
- 20 Apr 2021
GSMA says Over a Third of Mobile Industry Racing to Net Zero
The global mobile industry’s race to net zero emissions is gaining pace as the UN’s Race To Zero campaign declares the industry has made a critical ‘Breakthrough’. More than a third of the mobile…