AI-driven chip shortage slowing efforts to get world online: GSMA
Tokyo: A memory chip crunch fuelled by the artificial intelligence boom is hindering efforts to bring more people online worldwide, the head of the GSMA telecoms industry association told AFP.
An estimated 2.2 billion people — around a quarter of the global population — were not connected to the internet at all in 2025, according to the United Nations.
Yet only four percent of people live in mobile internet connectivity blackspots, according to the GSMA, whose members include more than 1,000 mobile operators and related businesses.
