Cool Wireless Stats of the WeekSorry. It's all old news on this page; I'm having trouble keeping up, so you'd do better to check out the Wireless Industry News Blog Penetration rate in Hungary at the end of 2005: 92.4%
China has 400 million subs; almost 5 and a half million new users in January 06 alone. Feb 2006: Brazil had 88 million mobile phone users. This is a penetration rate of 50%. Rate of active mobile phones in Brazil that are not being used at all: 18% It is estimated that 87% of cell phones will have cameras by 2010. 6 million cell phones sold in Russia in December 05, bringing the total to 126 million. (87% penetration)
Columbia doubled their mobile phone subs in 2005, up to 22 million. (population is 44 million) Brazil added almost 4 million mobile subs in December 2005; total is 86 million. They are the 5th biggest mobile phone market. (In order: China, U.S., Japan, Russia) MMS is still 4 times more expensive than SMS. Number of mobile phones in China near the end of 2005: 388 million Number of expected new mobile phone subscribers to be added in China in 2006: 48 million Wireless penetration stats: Britain: 103%
Russia's number of mobile phone subscribers as of 09/05 is almost 112 million out of a population of 143 million people. (see further up for updated stats) 63 million cell phone users in the U.S. are now playing games on their phones. (as of Dec 05) "Getting online via a phone or a personal digital assistant was up 29 per cent around the world in 2004, with an estimated 171 million people in 12 key global markets, 44 per cent of Internet users, having done so." "In Canada 14 per cent of those surveyed in October
2004 had connected wirelessly (using both Bluetooth and WiFi) to the
Net via a cell phone or PDA during the previous 30 days. That puts
Canadians fourth after Japan (at a whopping 54 per cent), South Korea
(at 28 per cent) and the U.S. (at 20 per cent) of wireless users via
phone or PDA." (not really stats...just news) In the past two years, the number of short message service
(SMS) messages sent worldwide grew from two billion per month to more
than 16 billion The following is a bit old: Japan - 55% have cell phones; 49% for land lines Not really a stat, but interesting nonethless: "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
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