Number of mobile telephone subscriptions equal to the global population

Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion equivalent to half the global population. In other words number of mobile phones now equal to half the human species.

In recent years the industry has seen surging growth in outskirts of China and India, helped by constantly falling phone and call prices, with cellphone vendors already eyeing inroads into Africa’s countryside to keep up the growth.

GSM is the most popular technology followed by CDMA technology.

=> Global cellphone penetration reaches 50 pct