Global UMTS/HSPA subscribers reached the 3bn subscribers mark in the last-week. This is a milestone that no other industry I'm aware of can boast. For those of us in developed countries, its easy to become compacent about how mobile technology has changed our life and will continue to do so.
In developing countries, the impact of communications is profund and changes the lives of people in ways that many of us don't appreciate. Communications has the potential to empower individuals and communities, indeed access to telecommunications forms a main element of the UN's Millenium Development Goals.
In developing nations, telecommunications helps people find work, build businesses, learn and stay in touch with distant relatives. It is used in the monitoring of disease, the notification of disaster, as a tool for disbursing micro-credit, for paying bills and as a lifeline to communities which, in many cases do not even have access to reliable electricity.
Without the legacy fixed-line infrastructure of developed countries and with the cost of building a mobile network being significantly cheaper than a fixed-line network, uptake in developing nations in particular is astounding with over 1million new subscribers being added every day.
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