Global Mobile: Quick Stats
October 4th, 2005 | by ka edong |- Mobile subscribers (1.1 billion) exceeded fixed-line subscribers for the first time in 2002
- There are now 1.7 billion mobile subscribers. Less than 0.5 percent remains on analogue networks.
- odafone with 165 million customers is the largest multinational operator
- GSM networks account for 75 percent of the world’s digital mobile customers.
- The SMS standard was launched in 1992 on GSM networks.
- More than 500 billion text messges are sent each year
- Text messaging is a US$50 Billion industry globally
Quoted from “Ringing the changes”
Silver Kris magazine
ka edong
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