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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Posted by Roberto
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FIVE BILLION PEOPLE TO USE MOBILE PHONES IN 2010
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the industry's biggest trade show, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure said in a statement:
1.
The number of cell phone subscribers will reach five billion people this year,
up from 4.6 billion in 2009.
2.
The number of mobile broadband subscriptions would exceed one billion this year,
after reaching 600 million in 2009.
3.
In the developing world, the growth has been driven by the use of phones for mobile banking and health services.
Good examples:
HEALTH sector:
Sending reminder messages to patient's phones when they have a medical appointment, or need a pre-natal check-up. Using SMS messages to deliver instructions on when and how to take complex medications such as anti-retrovirals or vaccines.
FINANCIAL sector:
People in developing countries with no bank accounts but mobile subscriptions are also increasingly able to do financial transactions with their phones.
Source:
Five billion people to use mobile phones in 2010
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