Half the Planet Now Uses Cell Phones--Sort Of
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion–equivalent to half the global population–on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said in a new Reuters article.
The past several years have seen particularly strong growth in both India and China, the two largest potential markets in the world.
But the article also issued a note of caution: “although mobile subscriptions have reached the equivalent of 50 percent of the population, this does not mean that half the people in the world now have a mobile phone.”
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