It has become an all-powerful tool that stimulates development in all spheres of economic and social life. smartphone not only because of its unlimited technological possibilities, to which new ones are added almost daily, but mainly because of its rapid penetration into the population.

In every corner of the world, in all social and income groups, from the richest to the poorest, smartphones have penetrated at a rate of up to 100%.

Official figures from GSMArepresenting the global mobile ecosystem, are impressive and confirm the power of mobile communications and, in particular, the smart mobile phone.

According to the latest data, in 2021 they existed on an international scale. 5.3 billion subscribers mobile telephony, while in 2025 the number of subscribers is estimated at 5.7 billion people.

Most of these subscribers, whose share exceeds 75% with constantly strong growth trends, have a smart mobile phone (smartphone) and access to the Internet via a mobile phone.

If we add cellular subscribers to those who have access to a smartphone via a SIM card, then the penetration of cellular communications among the population of the Earth reaches almost 100%.

However, the dominance of the mobile phone is not limited to communications. Technological developments of the last decade, such as the advent of 5G and the Internet of Things (Internet of Things), have provided huge new opportunities, especially the ability to interconnect a large number of devices with each other and all together with a mobile smartphone.

According to the GSMA, there are more than 15.1 billion devices connected to the Internet today, and all of them are mobile phones, and in 2025 this number will exceed 25 billion devices.

In simple words, from a smart mobile phone, each user, in addition to direct telephone communication, can access and manage thousands of objects and devices.

Fully exemplary devices from home, such as air conditioners, washing machines, stoves, lamps, doors, windows, awnings, TVs, radios, which are connected via applications to the user’s mobile phone and can be controlled and controlled remotely.

The reason for creating a “smart” home, which is already becoming a reality, is the connection of everything to the Internet and everything together with a smartphone.

However, just as a “smart” house is created, everything becomes “smart” and interconnected with the help of thousands of sensors that provide the necessary information and information: “smart” industry, “smart” agriculture, which, for example, facilitates the work of farmers in watering fields by teams with mobile phones.

Smart cities that are built from scratch, a typical example at the international level is our own Hellinikon, a new smart city that is built from scratch in the context of ongoing urban regeneration. .

As well as smart payments, smart cars and much more, which creates the famous smart world, which is not something of the future, but is already happening. In the field of transactions and payments, it is worth noting that there are 1.35 billion bank accounts on mobile phones in the world, through which a trillion transactions are carried out. dollars.

The development of the use of mobile phones in our country is also fast, a typical example is the constant increase in their use for transactions and purchases.

According to banks’ convergent estimates in mobile banking, from around 1,500 active users in 2005, we reached 360,000 at the end of 2015 and over 4 million active users today.

However, over the same time period, both the number and value of money transactions through mobile banking have increased significantly, with the number of mobile phone transactions now exceeding 80 million, worth more than 25 billion euros. annually.

At the same time, e-commerce is in full bloom with 50% of online shoppers making at least one (1) online purchase in the last two weeks.

In fact, smartphones have been confirmed to be number one as a means of shopping, as according to Generation Y – International eBusiness Hub, a Greek multinational company operating in the field of integrated digital transformation and e-business, business solutions, it is clear that 6 out of 10 Internet users are currently classified as online shoppers, with 98% of them using mobile devices as their primary device for their commercial digital transactions.

To the aforementioned major challenge and invitation, as Generation Y mentioned, market business consultants with experience in e-commerce are invited to respond with the aim of meeting all the operational and commercial needs of the business in terms of the sales tool, its technical characteristics, in design, and also in time. downloads of each online store (online store).

From our mobile phone, we can now communicate from anywhere in the world with anyone.

We can control and manage everything in real time: our movable and immovable property, make purchases and devote most of our time to entertainment. And all this thanks to the technological developments of recent years and the development of hundreds of mobile applications.

Something that famous inventors predicted and to some extent achieved almost a century ago. They simply could not imagine that all this would one day end up in the “pocket” of every person on the planet.

The Italian inventor of wireless communications, Guglielmos Marconi, told the journalist Alekos Lidorikis in 1932 during his visit to Athens, accompanied by his wife: “We are not far from the time of absolute radiotelegraphic domination. Very soon we will not need to accept the mediation of a radio station. Everyone from his home will be able to communicate with people who are far away, on the other side of the world, and this will certainly be a paradise of convenience and economy.

He also referred to a surprising experiment in March 1932, when, from his yacht Elektra, moored in Genoa, Marconi lit the lights of Sydney, the capital of New Wales, Australia. A fact that reminds us of managing objects and energy with the mobile phones we have today.

Alekos Lidorikis asked him then. “Won’t you repeat the experience of March 1930? What would you say about the idea of ​​lighting the fires of Athens from Rome?” “I do not deny that it would be something magnificent … Rome-Athens, the ideal of history to become the ideal of science … But should the Parthenon receive light from somewhere else? Doesn’t it shine alone, does it have so much of its own light, beauty and majesty? Marconi responded to Lidorikis, perhaps wishing to point out that the application of technological advances should also be stopped where they cease to be useful.

RES – OIE