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Mobile connections in Latin America surpassed half a billion in Q4 2009, according to 3G Americas. Unsurprisingly, the GSM-HSPA technology is leading the way with 91% market share and 464 million connections reported at year-end 2009. Of that number, 64 million were added during 2009 (28 million in Brazil alone), of which 9.4 million were 3G connections.
As for North America, GSM-HSPA operators added 13.6 million new connections last year, 8 million in the last quarter alone.
In total, at the end of 2009, GSM-HSPA networks accounted for 73% of all mobile subscriptions, up from 70% a year before.
In the Western Hemisphere, UMTS-HSPA (3G) connections were up 136%, totaling more than 64 million at the end of 2009.
Finally, on the global scale, GSM-HSPA technologies reached 4.17 billion subscriptions across 345 commercial networks in 139 countries worldwide. In other words, that’s 89% of the market. And of that number [4.17 billion], more than 450 million people connect on UMTS-HSPA based 3G networks.
[Via: CellularNews]
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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.
