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IT IS relatively easy to track the number of mobile subscriptions around the world.
In many rich countries there are more mobile subscriptions than people.
However, we note a positive, but slight impact on FDI of mobile subscriptions.
"In 2008, there were 4bn mobile subscriptions," said Ericsson's chief executive, Hans Vestberg.
By the end of last year, there were an estimated 4.1 billion mobile subscriptions, up from 1 billion in 2002.
A new United Nations report predicts the number of mobile subscriptions will exceed the global population next year.
Mobile subscriptions in Africa and the Middle-East alone exceeded one billion in [the first quarter of] 2013.
In the first quarter of this year, there were 6.2bn mobile subscriptions, less than the estimated 7bn world population.
"Undoubtedly the economic downturn plays a role here, but I don't think many people are dropping their mobile subscriptions," he said.
The world adds enough mobile subscriptions each quarter to set a country the size of Mexico (population: roughly 120m) talking loudly in lifts and bumping into walls.
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Besides mobility simulations and mobility modeling, mobile subscription data is also used for mobility behavior estimation in ITS applications.
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