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| 2 billion mobile phones will not benefit from tracking technologies for Google and Apple |
Researchers estimate that two competitors worldwide cannot use the smartphone-based system provided by Google and Apple because two competitors work together to develop a tracking system to be introduced to Google. Track whether they are infected with the Coronavirus. next month
This number includes the poor and the elderly, and they are also among the most vulnerable. This indicates that the two companies aim to maximize the number of people while protecting the digital divide in the data protection system.
Google's Android and IPhones devices now make up the vast majority of the 3.5 billion smartphones currently worldwide. This figure presented a potentially important network for infection detection, while the survey found broad support for the idea.
Google and Apple's plans rely on certain wireless chipsets and software missing from the hundreds of millions of smartphones still in use (especially those launched more than five years ago).
"The technical limitations are due to the fact that some used phones do not have the required bluetooth or the latest operating system. Whether you are using an old smartphone or not, you are losing the following benefit: this application can be deployed," said Ben Wood, analyst at CCS Insight.
Public health authorities have been asked to integrate this upcoming technology into institutional applications. The more people use the app, the more successful the system will be.
According to Counterpoint analysts, a quarter of the smartphones currently used around the world do not have certain types of low-energy Bluetooth chips, and 1.5 billion people still use non-working (iOS) or Android smartphones.
"There are nearly two billion people around the world who use mobile phones who will not benefit from this program. Most of these users have low incomes or in fact more vulnerable to infection with the virus," said Counter Point analyst Neil Shah.
Global smartphone penetration rates vary greatly as about 80% of UK adults own their smartphones. However, Wood estimates that about two-thirds of adults have compatible phones and says: “Great Britain is very developed in Great Britain. The smartphone market and Great Britain immediately ruled out 60% to 70% of the Indian population.”