If you can count how many scooters are in the system at any time (and how many belong to different providers) then you should be able to enforce your licencing

If you can count how many scooters are in the system at any time (and how many belong to different providers) then you should be able to enforce your licencing regime. And if you know roughly where rides are going to / from and when, then that helps you integrate your different types of public transport - for example making sure that when the train arrives there are enough scooters there, or understanding how popular scooter ride paths interact with bike lanes, bus lanes, etc. Mobile phone cell size is generally a pretty good proxy for population density - modern micro-cell sectors can be pretty small, and 5G will make them even small in urban areas. (I work on this sort of stuff for a major engineering data science and asset management group in the UK).