Mobile broadband is the most popular means of internet access for billions of people worldwide. Its breakthrough is the result of several innovations: from the early development of mobile networks in the 1980s, the rapid uptake of internet in the 1990s, and the advances of devices in the 2000s. The move to mobile data and a new app economy secured the unprecedented rise of MBB services throughout the 2010s.
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