Mobile Connections cross 4 billion mark

According to industry association GSMA, the number of connections on mobile phone networks has crossed the 4 billion mark worldwide. The association further forcasts this growth to reach 6 billion by 2013.

The number of connections does not translate directly into the number of users, however, because in many mature markets, one user may have two mobile phones, or a phone and a mobile data device, which would both count as two connections.

In Western Europe, about a fifth of connections are estimated to be due to one user having more than one device. While in developing countries, phones are often shared.

In the run-up to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - the wireless industry's biggest trade show which starts next Monday - the GSMA said some 100 million connections were "mobile broadband" connections. This refers to mobile data connections using the high-speed HSPA standard.

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