The future of communication has nothing to do with phones. This is what’s coming next

The mobile industry has spent the better part of four decades with one objective: putting a connected device in every human hand. That mission is nearly complete. Mobile services now reach about 5.8 billion consumers, roughly 70% of the people alive. In wealthy markets, almost anyone who wants to be reachable already is, according to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy 2026 report . The smartphone finished the job. Once almost everyone owned one, reaching another person stopped being the problem the indus

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