1 Billion New Cellphone Users In 3 Years

1 BILLION NEW CELLPHONE USERS IN 3 YEARS
[SOURCE: TelecomWeb]
More than one billion new wireless subscribers will sign up during the next 36 months, creating "unprecedented changes" in the mobile market where there are now 2.8 billion subscribers globally, according to new predictions by Pyramid Research. The research house also predicts 87 percent of those billion new users are going to come from what it terms "emerging economies," with 71 percent coming from parts of the world with urbanization levels at less than 50 percent. The result, it says, is that by 2010, about 74 percent of all cellphone users globally will live in those emerging economies. India and China will be the largest markets in terms of growth - with India representing more new subscribers than China despite the difference in population. But 10 of the 30 fastest growing markets will be in Africa and the Middle East, and 8 are in emerging Asia.
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