By Jo Best, 18 January 2006 16:45
NEWS
While the UK passed 100 per cent penetration for mobile phones some time ago, half the world still won't be using one by 2009, researchers believe.
According to a report from Portio Research, the number of mobile users worldwide currently around the two billion mark will reach nearly four billion by 2011.
Within the next five years, India's mobile market is expected to enjoy the most subscriber growth, followed by China. Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria are all expected to add substantial numbers of mobile users between now and 2011.
However, the US is also expected to see more of the wireless-less taking up mobiles 66 million new mobile users will sign up before 2011, the research company predicts.
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1. Simon
"... passed 100 per cent penetration for mobile phones ..."
Well that instantly discredits the story ! I know of people with no mobile, so I think it's more a problem of them not counting right - (number of phones) > (size of population) does not equal 100% penetration. It fails to take into account those with more than one phone.
Why more than one phone ? For some it's a business/personal split. For others, it's a case of keeping a spare one in the car, for others (like me) it's a matter of taking a spare one for when I'm on a trip to the wilds of England (or just at home) and expect 'iffy' (at best) coverage !