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India to overtake US to become second largest mobile phone market

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By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 6:59 AM

growthWe’ve already covered India’s mobile phone market in the past and they keep growing like crazy. That being said, they are about to reach somewhat important milestone to become the second largest mobile phone market in world, trailing only China.

At the moment, China leads the world with 540.5 million subscribers and is followed by U.S. and India which have 260.5 and 250.9 million wireless users, respectively. However, according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India that’s expected to change this April, when for the first time, India will overtake U.S. in number of mobile phone users.

In February, U.S. added 2 million, while at the same time India scored a whopping 8.53 million mobile phone users.

[Via: TelecomTiger]

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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.

  • Topy

    That’s pretty much matter of time. Did hear yesterday that Nokia has sold most of it’s N series phone in China was kinda suprising to me at least :smile: