The latest data from MEF shows that mobile spending is softening across markets between the 2025 and 2026 surveys, as higher energy prices, inflation and interest rates pressure consumers and businesses. This shock is external, but the effects are internal. Every crisis starts with the consumer:...
The term “enshittification”, coined by technology writer Cory Doctorow, captures a now-familiar phenomenon: the steady degradation of online services that once improved everyday life. If Facebook feels less like a social network and more like an advertising maze, if carefully crafted LinkedIn...
Across the Mobile Ecosystem Forum’s (MEF) events, research and member dialogues, one theme stood out in 2025: mobile is being rebuilt around trust, automation and richer user experiences. In 2026, these trends will deepen, changing how networks are exposed, how brands engage customers, and how...
With the parliamentary election approaching, the grammar of campaigning is changing. Microphones, banners and mass rallies no longer dominate political outreach. With posters banned, the wall has ceded its place to the smartphone screen. Social media, rather than street corners, has become the...
The formal process of blocking unofficial and illegally imported mobile handsets began on Thursday (1 January) with the launch of the National Equipment Identity Register (NEIR), marking a significant step in regulating the country’s mobile device market. Under the new system, any new handset...
Almost every household in Bangladesh now uses a mobile phone, reinforcing the country’s steady march towards ubiquitous digital connectivity even as traditional television viewing continues to ebb. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), 98.9% of households reported using mobile...
