Women remain 14% less likely than men to use mobile internet, despite eight years of well-intentioned smartphone distribution programs. South Asia exhibits the world’s highest gender gaps in mobile technology access, with a staggering 32% mobile internet gender gap that has remained virtually unchanged since 2017. Closing the gender gap in mobile ownership and use would deliver $230 billion in additional revenue to the mobile industry. Please Stop Funding Device DistributionThe evidence is clear: smartphone distribution programs without comprehensive support systems achieve the same outcomes as OLPC laptop distribution. This requires acknowledging that closing the smartphone gender gap isn’t primarily a hardware problem.