Mobile Phone Users Double Since 2000
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Worldwide mobile phone subscribers totalled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year (about one quarter of the world&#39;s population), according to the International Telecommunication Union.
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Researchers warn that a growing number of people are getting addicted to their mobile phones and PDAs.
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Mobile phones get smaller and lighter all the time. With the part count for the average mobile going down by 20-30 per cent every year, a phone bought five years ago now looks as old-fashioned as a 1950s wireless.
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Today, 3G Americas reports that the number of GSM mobile wireless subscribers worldwide has reached 2.5 billion, a stunning 400% increase in GSM subscribers from only six years ago, according to the estimates of Informa's World Cellular Information Service.
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The use of mobile phones in emerging markets is growing but people are using their phones for more than just talking.
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Mobile phone users have outstripped traditional landline connections in India, the government announced.
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People are becoming addicted to mobile phones, causing them to become stressed and irritable, psychologists say.
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The number of ambulances taking over an hour to reach a call-out has doubled since 2000, figures suggest.
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Mobile phone has reawakened demand for the technology company's laptop computers and iPods.
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Mobile phones in the UK celebrate their 10th anniversary - with almost 90% of Britons now owning a handset.
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Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of cellphones, said the number of mobile phone subscribers will climb to 4 billion by 2010, spurred by wireless Internet, television, and navigation services.
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The number of security attacks reported by mobile phone operators in 2006 jumped fivefold over the year before, a McAfee study reports.
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People in the UK used their handsets to access the net 15.9 million times in December, says a report.
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Mobile phone subscribers around the globe totaled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year, about one quarter of the world's population, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said on Thursday.
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Europe : Almost 2.8 millions Italians changed their mobile operator since the introduction of the Number Portability.
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Mobile phone subscribers around the  globe totaled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year,  about one quarter of the world's population, the International  Telecommunication Union (ITU) said on Thursday.
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Global mobile phone use will top 3.25  billion -- equivalent to around half the world's population --  in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa,  a survey said on Wednesday.