Mobile phone industry approaching 4 billion users
Technology • September 2009 • Views: 375
The digital mobile phone is one of the greatest success stories in the history of technology. There are now more than 3 billion mobile phone subscribers, and the number may soon exceed 4 billion. Digital technology has driven down the cost of feature-rich handsets and driven up the capacity of mobile phone networks. It’s often said that, globally, more people access the Internet from mobile phones than from PCs.
The dominant standard, GSM, was developed…