Mobile communications make for a lucrative and increasingly competitive market. The number of
has grown explosively since the 1990s. 950,000 were counted in the country in 1992, then 59.13 million 10 years later, and in 2022, 169 million mobile connections were registered. The figures are based on the number of SIM cards being used, with mobile phone subscription contracts included, prepaid connections and SIM cards for M2M communication (between machines). The leading telecommunications providers in Germany are Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany and Telefonica Germany, though they are by no means the only ones used by consumers. Of these three providers, Deutsche Telekom recorded the
The future of smartphones
Perhaps nowadays it is hard to imagine a home without at least one mobile phone in it. In 2022, over 98 percent of
German households owned a mobile phone, compared to around 30 percent in 2000.
Smartphone sales generated 11.8 billion euros in revenue in 2022, an increase compared to the year before. With
smartphone user numbers only growing in recent years, the topic of 5G is attracting more and more attention, with mobile communication providers eager to pounce and recruit new customers (or keep existing ones for longer) by being able to offer them more. 5G is a cellular network system for mobile broadband connection with promises of faster connection speed. This is increasingly relevant, as the volume of data exchanged between devices only increases. Remote working amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and general reliance on mobile communication services have additionally underlined the necessity of 5G implementation, though it is taking time. By 2025 there are estimated to be
73 million 5G connections in Germany, although this is fewer than in China, the U.S., and Japan, it is the highest out of any European country.
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