Four billion mobile subscribers by end of 2008

A report at the link below predicts there will be 4 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, by the end of this year.

If the prediction is true, it will have taken just five full quarters to acquire the last billion additions!

Global mobile penetration - the number of mobile subscriptions worldwide - reached 50 percent in November of last year.

A large number of more mature markets worldwide already have in excess of 100 per cent mobile penetration, as users sign up for more than one subscription.

But emerging markets are the engine for much of the rapid growth, with tremendous consumer demand seen in developing countries like China and India, which each delivered more than 50 million new mobile subscriptions in the last six months alone.

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