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World Reaches 2.5 Billion Cell Connections

September 11, 2006 at 11:01 pm · Filed under News Items

I read this little statistic on the day that at 6 AM, someone I don’t even know from Asia decides to ring my cell phone with a text message. Three times. I wasn’t very happy about it.

So, today I read and learn that the total number of worldwide cellular connections now stands at 2.5 billion.

The people that track this information say that there are about 40 million new connections per month. Amazing.

"A quarter of the growth is coming from China and India, with China’s market expanding at more than 5 million new connections per month."

"Other areas experiencing rapid growth include Russia, the U.S., Pakistan, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh."

They figure will be about 3 billion in total the end of next year.

Could someone just tell the person in Azerbaijan to check the clock and time zones before he dials?

 

Rodney Olsen said,

September 11, 2006 @ 11:09 pm

I remember many years ago standing in the middle of a large park using a ‘large’ mobile phone to do a live report on the radio for an event our radio station was supporting.

My mind was overwhelmed with the idea that I could be braodcasting to thousands of people from that phone.

The technology has moved so far since then. I’ve been in the middle of India and been able to chat to people back home on something snaller than a pack of cards. Amazing.

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