Mobile Internet for Developing Countries
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The growth of mobile communications has been phenomenal. At the start of the last decade there were just over 10 million mobile cellular telephone subscribers around the world. At the beginning of 2001, this figure had grown almost 70 times to over 700 million. Around one in ten people around the world now owns a mobile phone. The number of mobile subscribers will surpass the number of fixed telephones sometime this decade (Figure 1). There are more than thirty countries—both developed and developing—where this transition has already taken place (Figure 2).
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