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December 11, 2004

Mobile devices: 1.5 billion subscriptions in 2004

Mobile just looks bigger and bigger all the time.

For a start, Reuters offers some interesting stats in Mobile Phone Users Double Since 2000, that Nick Wilson at Threadwatch conveniently breaks down into core stats in Some Interesting Mobile Stats:

• There are 1.5Bn mobile subscribers worldwide
• That's 25% of the world with a mobile
• Developing countries account for 56% of that.
• There are 1.18Bn landline subscribers - notice mobile has overtaken that.
• There are Only 700M net connections

Nick also reports on the VentureCapital article Coming Soon: Desktop In Your Pocket, where Kevin Laws speculates that using mobile devices to carry out desktop search would become the next big battleground - marry desktop and mobile search applications.

Posted by at December 11, 2004 09:38 PM

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