According to market research firm Informa, the number of cellphone subscriptions worldwide is now equal to half of the world’s total population.
That does not mean that half the people in the world have a mobile phone, since some people own more than one, and in fact, Informa says there are 59 countries where cellphone penetration is over 100 percent.
Not bad for a technology first activated in 1981 in Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Norway.
Via Slashdot.
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