China
Tops Cellular Subscriber Top 15 Ranking.
Cellular
Subscribers
Will
Top 2B
in
2005.
September 26, 2005 - 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 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 |
||
Year-end
2005: |
Cellular
Subscribers (#M) |
Share
% |
| 1. China | 398 | 19.3 |
| 2. USA | 202 |
9.9 |
| 3. Russia | 115 |
5.6 |
| 4. Japan | 95 | 4.6 |
| 5. Brazil | 86 | 4.1 |
| 6. India | 79 | 3.8 |
| 7. Germany | 73 | 3.5 |
| 8. Italy | 59 | 2.9 |
| 9. UK | 58 | 2.8 |
| 10. France | 47 | 2.3 |
| 11. Mexico | 46 | 2.2 |
| 12. Turkey | 40 | 1.9 |
| 13. Spain | 39 | 1.9 |
| 14. South Korea | 38 | 1.8 |
| 15. Indonesia | 38 | 1.8 |
| Top 15 Countries | 1,414 | 68.5 |
| Worldwide Total | 2,065 | 100 |
The rankings will change considerably by 2010 and will mainly consist of the large populous countries and they will replace the smaller European countries that were early mobile phone adopters. The European countries will continue to lead in cellular subscribers per capita along with a few Asian countries such as Hong Kong and Taiwan.
More information is available in “Cellular Subscriber by Country”, a market research report by Computer Industry Almanac. 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 sales per year are also included in the report.
Computer Industry Almanac publishes market research reports for the PC, mobile phone, Smartphones, information appliance and Internet industries. For more information see Market Research Reports.
