Mobile Connect: Delivering global mobile identity services
Jon Fredrik Baksaas
Advisor, and former Telenor, Group CEO and GSMA, Chairman
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• OTT services
• Social networks
• Know Your Customer:
Telephone number & SIM
• Services
• Interoperability
• Standardisation leads to
scale
• Interconnect & roaming
• Coverage
• Affordability
• Connection
• Handset
• Understanding of market
The winning formula of the industry
Today
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Historical overview
2008
• Financial crisis
• Smart phone
• Mobile takes to the internet
• Start of OTTs
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Major network and technology changes
Source: GSMA Intelligence, 2017. https://www.gsmaintelligence.com
Total connections by generation from 2000 to 2020
(excluding M2M)
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Going forward
Note: The MNO’s have created connectivity but OTTs have seen the better usage
Services
HandsetsNetworks
& Connectivity
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Where does future value creation come from?
• Efficiency & dividends
• More connectivity (5G?)
• More devices (handsets, watches, Spectacles IOT)
• Services (alternative business models)
• How to scale 5 billion individual users?
The future of
digital identity