India now has more than 200 million mobile phone users
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 5:42 AM PST In General, Research
See, it’s not just China who’s growing like crazy in terms of number of mobile phone users. As a matter of fact they may be the world’s fastest growing economy, but it’s India which at the moment gets more mobile phone users every month.
After adding another eight million subscribers last month, Indian mobile phone users has passed the 200 million mark. However, the growth is still coming from the cities and the carriers still wait to cash-in from the wider adoption of mobile phones among the rural areas where nearly 70% of India’s 1.1 billion population live. In addition, we know that the government aims for more than half a billion mobile phone subscribers by 2010. No wonder, big carriers want to big there…
[Via: textually.org]
And it seems that a lot of them uses Symbian devices and has access to the Internet.
William, surely! N data is pretty cheap with some operators. I just pay aound 2.5$ a month for unlimited download!
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