There is one simple reason why mobile Internet access is so important: by 2021, it will be the way seven billion accounts get access to the Internet, compared to only about half a billion using fixed networks to do so.
By 2021, some 5.5 billion or so people will be using mobile services. Accounts are more numerous than "people" because many users have more than one subscriber identity module, which authorizes service.
Our present assumption that fixed networks are faster than mobile networks might not be quite so accurate by 2021, either, as 5G networks boost mobile speeds to equal, or in some markets, exceed, what is generally available on fixed networks.
That is not unprecedented. In the United Kingdom, for example, 4G speeds were faster than fixed connections in some instances. In the U.S. market, 4G often was faster than some cable TV connections and some telco digital subscriber line services, as well.
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