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Six in 10 people use mobile phone: UN report

Six in 10 people use mobile phone: UN report

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Geneva: Six in 10 people around the world now have cellphone subscriptions, signalling that mobiles are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a UN report published on Monday.

By the end of last year there were an estimated 4.1 billion subscriptions globally, compared with about one billion in 2002, the International Telecommunication Union said.

Fixed line subscriptions increased at a much slower pace to 1.27 billion from about 1 billion over the same period.

“There has been a clear shift to mobile cellular telephony," the agency said, noting that developing countries now account for about two-thirds of cellphones in use. In 2002, less than half of mobile subscriptions globally were in the developing world, it said.

Internet use more than doubled. An estimated 23% of people across the world used the Net last year, up from 11% in 2002.

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Published: 02 Mar 2009, 10:39 PM IST
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