"Four billion people, or half the world's population, will
communicate using mobile phones by 2015, up from the 1.3 billion or so
who have them now, the industry's top executive predicted on Wednesday.
By 2008, the world will already have two billion mobile users, said
Jorma Ollila, chairman and chief executive of Finland's Nokia, which
makes about two out of every five name-brand handsets worldwide....
Most of the growth in the mobile phone industry will come for basic
voice communications in emerging markets, especially China, India,
Indonesia, Brazil and Russia, he said.
China outpaced the U.S. as the world's largest market for mobile phones almost two years ago....
Ollila of Nokia said that, in developed countries where the
proportion of the population using mobile phones is already high,
wireless communications will overtake fixed-line communications in
terms of the volume of voice call traffic.
This is already the case in Italy, the Czech Republic and Portugal, he said." [Reuters, via Daily Palm]
[