A billion mobile phone additions registered in last 4 years
16 Oct 2014
The world had added over a billion mobile phone subscribers in the last four years alone, with the total number reaching 3.2 billion, almost half the earth's population, according to the organisers of an industry event in Dubai, PTI reported.
Over a billion of those devices were smartphones, bringing the disruptive power of internet connectivity to both professional and social spheres – whether through the 10.5 million jobs supported directly by the mobile ecosystem, or through proliferation of apps that change the way we perceive and interact with the world.
The Saudi mobile phone market, the largest in the Middle East boasted one of the highest mobile penetrations in the world, with 53 million subscriptions by 2013, and a mobile penetration rate of 181.6 per cent – almost 2 mobiles per user.
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