Mobile phone users grow by one billion in just two years!
(source: w3.org)
I recently came across this information that shows just how fast change is happening… The wave of mobile phone use is now rising to Tsunami heights so start paddling and get ready to surf!
“According to statistics from the market database Wireless Intelligence, it took about 20 years for the first billion mobile phones to sell worldwide. The second billion sold in four years, and the third billion sold in two. Eighty percent of the world’s population now lives within range of a cellular network, which is double the level in 2000. And figures from the International Telecommunications Union show that by the end of 2006, 68 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions were in developing countries”
Source : The New York Times April 2008
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