Cell phone use to double

About 186 million new cell phone subscribers will sign up every year between now and 2007, bringing the global total to 2 billion, research firm In-Stat/MDR said in a study released Wednesday. Though that total is twice the current tally, the predicted average annual growth rate is less than half that which the industry now experiences, according to News.com.

The study's findings match, to some degree, industry predictions made by Nokia, which forecasts there will be 1.6 billion cell phones in circulation by 2005.

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