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Some 75 percent of world's papulation accesses to cell phone: ADB
Dated: 2012-08-20
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank(ADB)has said that with some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use worldwide and around three-quarter of the world's inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone.
The Asian Development Bank in its latest report said that the world was home to 7 billion people, one third of which are using the Internet and 45 per cent of the world's internet users were below the age of 25 whereas internet users in China represent almost 25 per cent of the world's total.
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The Asian Development Bank in its latest report said that the world was home to 7 billion people, one third of which are using the Internet and 45 per cent of the world's internet users were below the age of 25 whereas internet users in China represent almost 25 per cent of the world's total.
It said growth in mobile telephony was driven by developing countries, which accounted for more than 80 per cent of the 660 million new subscriptions added in last year. The world's top broadband economies are from Europe and Asia and the Pacific. In the Republic of Korea, mobile-broadband penetration exceeds 90 per cent.
“Rapid advances in information and communications technology (ICT) have created tremendous opportunities for economic and social gains in the world's poorest areas,” the report added.
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