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The other day we told you China now has more than 1 billion mobile users. India isn’t that far behind with their telecoms regulator TRAI announcing that there were 903.73 million mobile users at the end of January, a 1.11% increase from 893.84 million in December 2011.
Wireless subscription in Urban Areas increased from 586.26 million in December 2011 to 591.10 million at the end of January 2012. At the same time, Rural Areas grew from 307.59 million to 312.62 million users.
As I’m writing this we still wait for the market consolidation in India. There are quite a few mobile operators in the country, competing for the hearts and minds of the local population, often deeply discounting services to get new customers. And while that’s good for the end users, at the end only few strong players will survive. In the process we expect to see bigger companies acquiring smaller rivals. Heck, we expected big acquisitions to take place last year, but nothing happened. Guess this year could be the one we’ve been waiting. We’ll see…
[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.
