BY 2018 THE WORLD WILL HAVE 4 BILLION MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS
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Feb 26, 2013
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The $1.0 trillion global mobile industry predicted
yesterday a boom in subscribers to four billion people by 2018 as the
world’s largest mobile fair opened in Barcelona, Spain.
Already,
3.2 billion people pay for mobile services, nearly half of the world’s
population, said a study by A. T Kearney and GSMA, which represents 750
mobile operators and organises the vast, four-day annual Mobile World
Congress.
The report forecast that a further
700 million subscribers would be added by 2017 and the four
billion-subscriber mark would be hit in 2018. Revenues for mobile
operators alone amounted $1.0 trillion, or 1.4 per cent of the world’s
gross domestic product, in 2012, the report said. (AFP)
