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发帖数: 1034 | 1 January 15, 2015 12:15 PM
Dean Takahashi
We know that mobile technology has had a huge impact on the world economy
and society, and now a new report seeks to quantify that impact. Mobile tech
generated a value chain of $3.3 trillion in revenues in 2014, according to
a report by The Boston Consulting Group.
Qualcomm, one of the world’s biggest mobile chip makers, commissioned the
report, dubbed “The Mobile Technology Revolution.” Companies in the mobile
value chain invested $1.8 trillion in infrastructure and research and
development from 2009 to 2013. Almost all of that was funding from the
private sector. The report says that another $4 trillion should be invested
by 2020 in order to keep the mobile revolution going.
The report is an attempt to evaluate the economic impact of mobile
technology around the globe. The Boston Consulting Group examined mobile
tech and its benefits in the U.S., Germany, South Korea, Brazil, China, and
India. It surveyed 7,500 consumers across the six countries to quantify the
value that consumers get from mobile. Mobile tech contributes more than $1.2
trillion GDP in those six countries.
Consumers in developed economies value mobile tech at more than $6,000 per
year, or 12 percent of their income. In developing economies such as China
and India, the value of mobile exceeds 40 percent of average income. In fact
, the majority of people surveyed were willing to give up dining out or
going on vacation for a year in order to keep their mobile phones. In China
and Korea, a majority of users would give up a subscription to home
broadband Internet access rather than go without a mobile phone.
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The report also says that the aggregate annual consumer surplus — or the
benefit that consumers receive from mobile technologies over and above what
they pay — amounts to $6.4 trillion. That exceeds the gross domestic
product of every country in the world except the U.S. and China.
The Boston Consulting Group also surveyed 3,500 small businesses in six
countries. It found that small businesses that adopt advanced mobile
technologies increase revenues up to two times faster and add jobs up to
eight times faster than their peers.
But the report is troubling in one sense. It says the “mobile divide” —
the difference in growth between mobile leaders and laggards — is poised to
increase.
In the U.S., the 3.2 percent GDP generated by mobile technologies exceeds
the GDP of essential industries such as entertainment, transportation,
automobile, hospitality, and agriculture.
David C. Michael, a senior partner and a coauthor of the report, said that
the report shows that mobile is clearly the engine of economic growth, but
much more innovation is needed. And politicians and policy makers should
note that mobile requires strong infrastructure support, policies on
allocating radio spectrum, and standards setting. About 90 percent of mobile
device owners say they want faster speeds for mobile data access. |
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