Planet Earth: now home to four billion phone lines
Go on, pick your jaw up off the floor -- this isn't that staggering, now is it? Considering all those cellphones that have been sold here recently, and the plethora of folks who just refuse to ditch that landline, four billion total phone lines seems just about right, truth be told. According to the International Telecommunications Union, our planet is now home to about "1.27 billion fixed lines and 2.68 billion mobile accounts," but the total number of people represented by these data is much less clear. Notably, the study found that "61-percent of the world's mobile subscribers are in developing countries," and further added that China and India were greatly to thank for reaching the milestone. And just think, there were less than 1 billion lines combined across the globe just 11 years ago.[Image courtesy of OwlRecruitment]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
The Aggie CEO™ @ Sep 5th 2007 6:55PM
How many people are on the planet again??
Dan @ Sep 6th 2007 12:39PM
At first glimpse, I though this had to do with the BBC documentary.