Wednesday November 28, 2007 50 percent of all people on Earth have a cell phone
Reuters reports that 50 percent of all people on Earth have a cell phone. And, more importantly, if you extrapolate and take the estimate that 8 out 10 of all cell phones are Java ME technology-enabled, that makes the number at about 2.6 billion Java ME tech-enabled cell phones on Earth. See: Lots of Java ME tech-enabled cell phones Here's a quote: Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion -- equivalent to half the global population -- on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said.That's a whole lotta people playing Bejeweled and Tetris! |
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Just nitpicking, but actually the article does not state that half the world population has a cell phone, but that the number of cell phones is half the world population. Many people have a private phone and a business phone (not to mention drug dealers that have multiple phones :-), so the actual number of cell phone users is far from being half the world population.
Posted by Ulf Dittmer on December 01, 2007 at 03:11 AM PST #
Hi Ulf,
That's true. It's the number of cell phone subscriptions that is equivalent to the number of half the world's population, which doesn't mean half of everyone on earth owns a cell phone. Thanks for pointing out the distinction from the article.
Still that's a whole lotta cell phones if you piled them all up in one heap... even if you could take the multiple ones away from the drug dealers which I do not recommend. ;)
Fo shizzle. :)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on December 01, 2007 at 12:23 PM PST #