2 billion GSM mobile phone users
Posted by MattE on 17 Jun 2006 at 03:38 pm | Tagged as: Media
This weekend, the mobile phone industry will celebrate an historic milestone as it connects the second billionth GSM mobile phone user in the world, the GSM Association (GSMA) announced today (13 June, 2006).
The GSMA said that new users are signing up at the rate of 1,000 per minute (just under 18 per second) to services that include both second generation GSM, as well as third generation 3GSM services - for which there are already more than 72 million users in the world.
Read the full GSMA press release here
