Sunday, February 29, 2004
GSM crosses the 1 billion mark
CommWeb is reporting that there are now over 1 billion GSM users in the world today. I guess this is a major victory for the European standard. Now that Cingular has bought AT&T and since I am guessing T-Mobile is begging to be bought, perhaps the American market too will be dominated by GSM despite Verizon and Sprint using CDMA. Remains to be seen whether GSM or CDMA will eventually dominate markets like India, where CDMA-based Reliance has emerged as the largest player.
"There are now more GSM mobile handsets in daily use than the total number of personal computers and televisions combined," the GSM Association said in announcing the bank's study. "Driven by GSM, the number of mobile subscribers exceeded the number of fixed telephone lines for the first time in 2003. In the last 12 months alone, GSM added nearly 198 million new users."
"There are now more GSM mobile handsets in daily use than the total number of personal computers and televisions combined," the GSM Association said in announcing the bank's study. "Driven by GSM, the number of mobile subscribers exceeded the number of fixed telephone lines for the first time in 2003. In the last 12 months alone, GSM added nearly 198 million new users."
