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I liked to the wrong report in the last blog.  Apologies.  But, you know, you got to the right site!  This is the other Portio Research report summary I was taking a look at: Worldwide Mobile Markets Forecasts.

Here are the three key bullet points:

• World Top 25 Mobile Growth Markets – ranking list released today reveals a few surprises, US offers more room for growth than Russia, and Japan offers greater future growth than South Africa.

• The number of mobile subscribers worldwide reached over 2 billion by the end of 2005, and is predicted to rise to 3.96 billion by 2011.

• The Asia Pacific Region will account for 50% of the total number of subscribers worldwide by the end of this decade with a staggering 1.067 billion subscribers shared between China and India alone, the world’s two biggest mobile markets.

The whole industry is growing. Growing. Growing.  It’s still exciting!

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