December 25, 2006
Mobiles still ringing in New Year
The mobile, almost unlike any other device, has changed the way we work, socialise and live our lives. The BBC reports.
"But although many of us could now no longer live without our mobiles, according to Sir David Brown, Chairman of Motorola, the mobile industry had no idea how successful they would become.
Speaking at a conference in 2006, he admitted that in the mid-1980s the mobile phone industry estimated that by the year 2000, there would be a market for about 900,000 mobile phones worldwide.
When we reached the millennium, he said, 900,000 phones were being sold every 19 hours.
And although the mobile market is now mature it still continues to grow at a phenomenal pace.
At the end of 2006 there were nearly 2.7 billion mobile phone subscribers globally, according to research firm Informa Telecoms and Media.
In 2007 Informa predicts that the total number of subscribers will top three billion for the first time, almost half of the world's population."
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