December 11, 2004

Mobile devices: 1.5 billion subscriptions in 2004

by brian_turner

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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.

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