Saturday, August 25, 2007

84% of U.S. will have mobiles by year-end

According to a report from SNL Kagan, by the end of 2007, 84% of the U.S. population will have mobile phones and by 2013 that percentage will surpass 100%.

One might ask how more than 100% of the population could have mobile phones and the answer is that certain "uber-connected" people will have multiple cellphone subscriptions. One might have their personal cellphone and a business line or just like to have multiple phones.

In fact, according to an article from last year, 30 countries had already exceeded 100% cell phone penetration and some countries, such as the UK, Sweden and Italy have already exceeded 110%!

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[Source: Mobile Phone Blog]

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