15% of Humans Now Have 3G Service, 40% by 2014

The estimated world population is about 6.8 billion people. Qualcomm estimates that just under 15% of us are 3G wireless data subscribers as of mid-March:

3G has reached 1 billion subscribers. What can we expect going forward?

They quote an estimate from Wireless Intelligence that the number of 3G subscribers will reach 2.8 billion by 2014. Assuming the world’s population grows linearly at a 1.14% growth rate between now and 2014, the world’s population should be around 7.1

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