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India now has more than 200 million mobile phone users

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By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 5:42 AM

India now has more than 200 million mobile phone usersSee, 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]

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • William

    And it seems that a lot of them uses Symbian devices and has access to the Internet.

  • Vaibhav Sharma

    William, surely! N data is pretty cheap with some operators. I just pay aound 2.5$ a month for unlimited download! :twisted: