The number of mobile subscribers reached last week 5 billion people, according to company Ericsson. Most of the growth in the number of users now taking place at the expense of people in developing countries. Most active in this respect, India and China, where the number of subscribers reached 620 million and 800 million respectively.
Australia has 22 million subscribers for a population of 22,3 million people.
Well, since the information is provided by Ericsson, it also shared information about the fact that nearly 50% of semiconductors and chips for mobile phones made it ST-Ericsson.