One Billion Mobile Phones Shipped In 2006!

Doug Smith · 01-27-07, 06:30 PM

Can you really imagine one billion mobile phones shipped? According to the IDC (IDC is owned by International Data Group, which also owns Computerworld.), 2006 was a record year for mobile phone shippments in which for the first time that over 1 billion units were shipped! Amazing! This was largley due to a strong 4th quarter where 294.4 million units were shipped. That's a lot of RAZR's for Christmas! But the truth of the growth is coming from developing nations in Asia. China alone fueled a great deal of the growth by conributing over "461.1 million mobile phone subscribers, adding 67.7 million new users during the year".
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psionandy · 01-28-07, 02:23 AM

that's a huge number... I just can't get my head arround that many phones