Regarding Trend #1: the applications for low-cost smartphones -- that enable mobile internet access -- are beneficial to developed markets such as the U.S. as well.

Reason being, there's a significant part of the American population that is poor and functionally illiterate. In the past, this segment of the public could not afford wireline broadband internet access, but they can afford cheap smartphones and pre-paid mobile phone service plans.

Numerous studies have already identified the lack of access to the internet as a major obstacle for Americans who are attempting to rise above the dismal outlook that comes from living a life in perpetual poverty.