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Sunday, February 6, 2011

The amazing pace of mobile phone penetration

Two graphics that puts the pace at which mobile phone usage has expanded in perpective. First, mobile phones have been adopted more than five times as fast as fixed line telephone services, which took 100 years to reach 80% of country populations.



The speed of its adoption remains unprecedented.



(HT: William Jack and Tavneet Suri)

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