Africa has more mobile phone subscribers than North America
Posted May 7th, 2008 by Alex Ion
I wasn’t expecting something like this, but Total Telecom came out with a report saying that Africa has more mobile phone subscribers than North America. Could that be the cause (picture) ?
Quoting Wireless Intelligence, “The number of mobile phone users in Africa exceeded 280 million in the first quarter of this year and will reach the 300 million mark next month“. If we count US and Canada together they have some 277 million subscribers so here’s Africa slapping North America …
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May 8th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Uhh…USA and Canada aren’t the only countries in North America.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Uhh…USA and Canada aren’t the only countries in North America.
Yeah, but they are the only ones that actually count. And even Canada is somewhat iffy…
May 8th, 2008 at 5:44 am
“Uhh…USA and Canada aren’t the only countries in North America.
Yeah, but they are the only ones that actually count. And even Canada is somewhat iffy…”
Lawl.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:44 am
How the hell dare you say Canada doesn’t count! The average American thinks we live in igloos… seriously you shouldn’t even be talking. Canada has the #1 best lifestyle in the world. UN said that. And Mexico has rediculous amounts of phones, and the 2nd richest man in the world is a mexican owning a phone company. I agree with theY4Kman.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:18 am
@dave:
That is an incredibly ignorant statement. Mexico had 44 million cellular subscribers during 2005, so North America blows Africa out of the water.
Source:
http://www.telecomcide.org/documentos/041CL-JMariscal_CBonina-Mobile_Phone_Mexico-06.pdf
May 10th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Wow this is an eye opener. I wonder when they beat the US or the world.