Late in 2010, the World Cell Phone Users Reach 5 Billion
Late in 2010, the World Cell Phone Users Reach 5 Billion. The number of users of Cell phone operators in the world is estimated at five billion users. Until the first quarter of 2010 this number reached approximately 4.8 billion cell phone users.
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The data is disclosed to ABI Research as reported by PC Advisor, Thursday (01/07/2010). Most growth of users are in Africa and Asia Pacific.
“The improvement of this very high driven by growth in India and Indonesia, both countries add approximately 150 million users throughout the four quarters ago,” said ABI Research analyst, Bhavya Khanna.
While Africa has recorded the fastest cell phone user growth year on year approximately 22 percent. “For the Asia Pacific region, in 2010 estimated the number of service users grew 65 percent,” said Bhavya.
Stimulus of the high number of new users, continued Bhavya, partly because of lower tariffs and cheap handsets presence and aggressiveness in a number of cellular operators.
In some regions like North America and Europe, the possible number of user growth will be smaller because of the penetration in the region close to 100 percent.
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