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60 percent of the world has mobile phones

article published on 3 March, 2009

According to a new United Nations (UN) report, about 60 percent of the world's citizens now own a mobile phone The report states the large jump up is attributable to the strong growth in poor, developing countries, most notably China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In 2002, only 14 percent of the world's population had any type of mobile phone. According to the International Telecommunication ... [ read the full article ]

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DXR88
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_ 		3. March 2009 @ 15:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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the report ranked the world's nations on how "advanced their use of information and communications technology (ICT) is" and found Sweden to be the best. Sweden even had more cellular accounts than it had population in 2007. The United States fell to 17th.
WTF SWE teh nub, U TXT.

how advance they are in using a said technology has nothing to do with cell accounts.

UN, STFU n GTFO.
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60 percent of the world has mobile phones

83% of all statistics are 50% made up.
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varnull
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_ 		3. March 2009 @ 20:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They based the figure on the total of registered mobile numbers currently in use.

It doesn't bear any actual relation to the number of people who have a phone.. because I have 5 active pay and go accounts, and I suspect many other people here have more than one.

As with all these type of statistics just using a raw total/world population is inaccurate. If you break it down by country (no.. I can't be bothered) chances are some territories have more numbers than people.
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The other 40% are using these...



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DXR88 - let's reduce that sig size asap - it's 10x the limit. A member should know this. Link in my sig anyhow if you need a refresher.
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DXR88
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_ 		3. March 2009 @ 21:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by binkie7:
 DXR88 - let's reduce that sig size asap - it's 10x the limit. A member should know this. Link in my sig anyhow if you need a refresher.
it does say 500x200 or 50kb right? i dunno it just looks a bit big.
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Yep 500x200 @ 50 kb max is fine for image only sigs.


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