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January 28, 2007
Cell Phones in China and India: Four New Subs a Second
Combined, China and India added almost 142-million mobile phone subscribers in 2006 (to get to 611-million total). In case you're curious, that works out to about 4 new cell subscribers a second.[IDC via Computerworld]
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Very interesting, even as vast tracts of India remain without coverage, as I found out on a long train ride.
India has sure come a long way from 1995, when I got my first Nokia 1610 (I still have it - it is part of my Nokia exhibition and doubles up as a weapon, with its brick-like weight!) and used to pay enormous bills, and texting was not even available.
When discussing the Indian cell phone market, the numbers are eye-popping. For example:
- India's cellphone subscriber count doubled last year from 75 million to 150 million.
- The projected count in 2010 is 500 million subscribers.
- All this while the number of fixed line subscribers in India dropped from a paltry 48 million to an increasingly insignificant 40 million.