Comments on: Global mobile penetration hits 50% http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/ Telecoms industry news and opinion Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Osas http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/#comment-591 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:01:53 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/#comment-591 Celtel in Nigeria is already giving coverage to over 95% of NIgeria population of about 140million. Though the total number of customers in networks combined is about 42million which leaves room for more articulated marketing to have more subcribers. Celtel is propecting to have 40 million subscribers in the next 2 years and with new packages i.e HSDPA and plans towards LTE, we are going to witness an upsurge in subsrcriber base and increase in ARPU. Celtel in Nigeria is already giving coverage to over 95% of NIgeria population of about 140million. Though the total number of customers in networks combined is about 42million which leaves room for more articulated marketing to have more subcribers. Celtel is propecting to have 40 million subscribers in the next 2 years and with new packages i.e HSDPA and plans towards LTE, we are going to witness an upsurge in subsrcriber base and increase in ARPU.

]]> by: Treo Today » Blog Archive » 50% of people on Earth are now connected via mobile http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/#comment-396 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:17:51 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/#comment-396 [...] What’s the difference between yesterday and today? Nothing much, if you consider it on a day by day basis. Just 26 years after the first cellular (mobile) network was launched, we have reached 3.3 billion mobile subscriptions. That’s half the population of the world, many of whom never had any form of telecommunications just ten years ago. Today there are mobile networks in 224 countries. The first mobile network was launched way back in August 1981 in Sweden and Norway. The network was based on the NMT-450 (Nordic Mobile Telephony) standard, and the first mobile phone was the Mobira Senator 450 by Nokia. The Mobira Senator 450 weighed 10 kilos! Think about that the next time you say a Nokia phone is “heavy”. [...] […] What’s the difference between yesterday and today? Nothing much, if you consider it on a day by day basis. Just 26 years after the first cellular (mobile) network was launched, we have reached 3.3 billion mobile subscriptions. That’s half the population of the world, many of whom never had any form of telecommunications just ten years ago. Today there are mobile networks in 224 countries. The first mobile network was launched way back in August 1981 in Sweden and Norway. The network was based on the NMT-450 (Nordic Mobile Telephony) standard, and the first mobile phone was the Mobira Senator 450 by Nokia. The Mobira Senator 450 weighed 10 kilos! Think about that the next time you say a Nokia phone is “heavy”. […]

]]> by: Jan http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/#comment-388 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:38:00 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2007/11/29/global-mobile-penetration-hits-50/#comment-388 To be fair, NMT was perhaps the first automatically switched system(?), but not really the first mobile network. The first mobile telephony network was probably the MTS system, which launched in St. Louis (USA) in 1946 (operator switched). MTA launched in Sweden in 1956, OLT launched in Norway in 1966, ARP in Finland in 1971 and MTD (replacing MTA) in Sweden in 1971. They were all manually switched by an operator. I've myself used an ARP phone as late as 1989 (which I inherited from my father), before buying my first NMT phone in 1990. Indeed, we've come a long way since those days. To be fair, NMT was perhaps the first automatically switched system(?), but not really the first mobile network. The first mobile telephony network was probably the MTS system, which launched in St. Louis (USA) in 1946 (operator switched).

MTA launched in Sweden in 1956, OLT launched in Norway in 1966, ARP in Finland in 1971 and MTD (replacing MTA) in Sweden in 1971. They were all manually switched by an operator.

I’ve myself used an ARP phone as late as 1989 (which I inherited from my father), before buying my first NMT phone in 1990. Indeed, we’ve come a long way since those days.

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