Well isn’t this a rather interesting fact. Turns out that according to analysts at The Mobile World, there are more phones in this world than people. To be exact 6.920 billion connects versus 6.915 billion people. Now isn’t that something. Of course this does not mean that everyone in the world has a phone, but it certainly means that there are definitely people out there who own more than one phone. In fact I used to know this one person with three phones, one for friends, one for calling family overseas, and one for business. It also turns out that the mobile phone has overtaken the toothbrush in terms of the “most owned” object in the world, I guess more people are interested in making phone calls than brushing their teeth.
John Tysoe, principal analyst at The Mobile World, said: “Since the turn of the century, the world’s mobile phone base has grown more than tenfold, to the point where mobile connections outnumber fixed lines by four to one.
“While this figure does not imply 100 per cent universal phone access, that goal is coming closer. The industry continues to defy predictions that the rate of progress must slow”
He added that 2010 was the industry’s first trillion dollar year and produced more new customers than any previous year with 200m net additions in the final quarter alone. There’s something to think about.
