May 26, 2004

In Latin America, a Cellular Need

An explosion in prepaid service has made cellphones available to millions of people in Latin America, and has sent use skyrocketing, according to the NYTimes.

"Subscribers jumped from fewer than 40 million in 1999 to 118 million today, turning one in five Latin Americans into a cellphone user and making this a $20.4 billion market, according to Pyramid Research."

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