Computer Industry Almanac: China Leads Cellular Subscriber Ranking; Cellular Subscribers Will Top 2B in 2005.ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill. -- The worldwide number of cellular subscribers will surpass 2 billion in 2005 -- up from 11M in 1990 and 750M in 2000. China is the clear leader in cellular subscribers and will reach nearly 400M at year-end year-end also year·end n. The end of a year. adj. Occurring or done at the end of the year: a year-end audit. Noun 1. 2005 -- nearly twice as many as the USA. Russia has seen tremendous growth in the last few years and is projected to be in third place by year-end 2005. Rapid expansion in India will see a future climb in the rankings to a possible #2 in 2010. Worldwide cellular subscribers are forecasted to reach 3.2B by the end of 2010.
Top 15 Countries in Cellular Subscribers
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Year-end 2005: Cellular Subscribers (#M) Share %
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1. China 398 19.26
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2. USA 202 9.79
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3. Russia 115 5.55
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4. Japan 94.7 4.59
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5. Brazil 85.5 4.14
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6. India 79.4 3.84
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7. Germany 73.1 3.54
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8. Italy 59.1 2.86
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9. UK 57.7 2.80
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10. France 47.2 2.29
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11. Mexico 46.1 2.23
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12. Turkey 39.9 1.93
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13. Spain 39.8 1.93
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14. South Korea 38.6 1.87
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15. Indonesia 38.1 1.84
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Top 15 Countries 1,414 68.46
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Worldwide Total 2,065 100
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The rankings will change considerably by 2010 and will mainly consist of the large populous pop·u·lous adj. Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population. [Middle English, from Latin popul countries and they will replace the smaller European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. countries that were early mobile phone adopters. The European countries will continue to lead in cellular subscribers per capita [Latin, By the heads or polls.] A term used in the Descent and Distribution of the estate of one who dies without a will. It means to share and share alike according to the number of individuals. along with a few Asian countries Noun 1. Asian country - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent Asian nation country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" such as Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and Taiwan. More information is available in "Cellular Subscriber by Country", a market research report by Computer Industry Almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. . The report estimates and forecasts the number of cellular subscribers and phone lines for 57 countries and the six main regions of the world for 1990 through 2010. Regional handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. sales per year are also included in the report. Computer Industry Almanac publishes market research reports for the PC, mobile phone, Smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). , and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the industries. For more information see http://www.c-i-a.com. |
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