Mobiles flooded the world in a blink, you're right

If you are the one who often thinks that mobiles appeared in the hands of the people inhabiting planet earth in just a blink, then here are the numbers to prove you right:

According to an article quoting the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report, mobile phones have indeed spread fast.

Number of mobile phone subscribers in the world at the end of 2008:________4.1 billion

Number of mobile phone subscribers in the world at the end of 2002:_______ 1 billion

Growth: ___________________________________________________ 310 percent

Just to bring home the point better,

The new additions to the global Fixed-line subscriptions in the period of six years between 2002-08 is just 1 billion.
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