The Mobile Economy Europe 2025

Digital infrastructure has been at the heart of social and economic progress in Europe for the better part of the last three decades. Today, nearly half a billion people across Europe are connected to the mobile internet, predominantly through high-speed 4G and 5G networks. Mobile technologies and services now generate around 5% of GDP across Europe, a contribution that amounts to almost $1.2 trillion of economic value added. 5G, in particular, is expected to benefit most sectors of the European economy, adding more than $160 billion of economic value by 2030.

However, Europe is at crossroads in the development of crucial digital infrastructure, with key network performance and consumer adoption metrics showing that it is falling behind competitively in comparison to some its global peers. This underlines the need for urgent action by European Commission and other authorities to implement critical policy reforms to ensure that Europe’s digital economy, underpinned by strong, sustained network innovation, can re-establish a leadership position in the global tech race by 2030.