Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Mobile phone subscribers pass 2 billion

THE number of mobile phone subscribers in the world has surpassed the 2 billion.

"The bulk of the new growth now is coming from large, less well-developed markets such as China, India, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa," said Wireless Intelligence, an information service set up by industry body GSM Association and consulting firm Ovum. Nokia last month said it expected the 2 billion mark to be reached in the final quarter of the year and 3 billion to be reached by 2010.

"The total number of mobile connections is now equivalent to nearly a third of the estimated world population of 6.5 billion," Martin Garner, director at Wireless Intelligence, said in a statement.

Via Wireless Intelligence

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