7 5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide in 2010

More than 500 million mobile subscribers in 2009

A recent International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the report suggests that the steady increase in the number of people using mobile phones by the year 2010 will continue. In fact, the number of mobile subscribers exceeded 5 billion marks sometime this year if the current growth continues!

This means that end in 2010, 400 million mobile subscribers than in 2009. Last year, the ITU reports the number of subscriptions that 4.6 billion upward. Most of this growth is from developing and transition countries – the largest portion, probably from China and India. In developed countries, the penetration rate of mobile phones is already well over 100 percent. Developing countries also have associated, on average, only 57 percent of the population to mobile phones.

Together with mobile phones, Internet use is always a little more than 1.7 billion people (26 percent of world population) have access to the Web. Cordless phones, however, continue to die a slow death and constant. ITU adds that the most advanced countries were in terms of telecommunications and the Internet in 2008, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and the United Kingdom (in Europe) and Korea-Japan in Asia.