Almost two-thirds of the world population to have a mobile

lmost two-thirds of the world's population will have a mobile phone by the end of the year, according to the head of the UN's telecoms agency.

Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of the International Telecom Union (ITU), said he expects the number of mobile phone users to exceed 4bn, or 61 percent of the world's 6.7bn inhabitants, in December.

[via The Telegraph]

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