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88% of Serbians use mobile phones – Serbia mobile phone usage on the up and up!

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By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 11:59 PM

Serbia has really been burning rubber when it comes to market penetration for mobile phone usage! In the past year, 1.8 million Serbians has started using mobile phones – amounting to a 22% increase over the previous year. As of May 2007, Serbia has reached mobile market penetration of 88% – quite an impressive number indeed!

We like to think that our resident Serbian editor, Dusan, has played a large part in his home country’s increased cell phone use. What better way to increase awareness and push mobile technologies than to see Dusan walking around, visiting various cafes and shops, using all those fancy mobile gadgets?

Serbian wireless market penetration reaches 88% - serbia has seen increasing mobile phone usage at a rapid pace

Wireless operator, Telekom Srbija, accounted for 71% of the increased wireless subscribers, with Mobtel picking up 29%. It’s interesting to note that, as of 2004, the two companies were essentially tied in subscriber-base, but Telekom Srbija has clearly taken the lead – which is quite expected given there are only two choices in this particular market.

However, Austria-based Telekom Austria is slated to get into the Serbian wireless market by the end of 2007. But, only after wireless market penetration is projected to break through the 100% mark.

Great work Dusan! It looks like all your wireless soldiering has paid off! Hats off to you.

[Via: Cellular-News]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Marcvs Agrippa

    On June 11 the third mobile operator / provider started offering their services in Serbia. The company’s called VIP Mobile and is a subsidiary of Austria’s Mobilkom.

    This should bring down the cost-per-minute, given that Serbia is the second most expensive country in Europe when it comes to cell phones (Poland being the most expensive).

  • Will Park

    That’s a nice benefit to market competition – Dusan is always saying how wireless minutes, and especially data, rates are crazy out there!

  • mark

    will my gsm one work in serbia?

  • ivan

    i would like to see my bile online . do you know how?
    plz send me the link for 064

  • Anastasia

    Hello all!

    DOes any body intresting for import mobile phomes from Europe? We are intrenational groupe of company with main Ofiice in prague, dealing in export and import mobiles phones. Pls send me mail, if have any interes import to Serbia