Mobile Phones: Over One Billion Served
According to the market research firm IDC, solid holiday sales numbers along with strong growth in emerging markets (which we heard before) boosted the number of mobile phones sold in 2006 to 1.02 billion. This is up from 832.8 million in 2005.
IDC reports that emerging markets (Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.) accounted for a larger percentage of mobile phone sales than established markets like North America, Japan and Western Europe. The article seems to suggest that this trend will continue as developing nations continue to build stronger wireless frameworks (which are significantly cheaper than wired infrastructures).
Read the full article (ComputerWorld).