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[techni68]

* One third of the world population has never made a telephone call.

* While Sub-Saharan Africa contains about 10% of the world’s population, it accounts for only 0.2% of the world’s 1 billion telephone lines.

*The cost of renting a telephone connection on the African continent averages about 20 percent of GDP per capita compared to a world average of 9 percent and an average of only 1 percent in high-income countries.

*There are under 5 telephones per 100 people in India.

*In the world, there are over 1.2 billion fixed telephone lines, 1.3 billion cellular subscribers and 140 billion international telephone traffic minutes each year.








Sources: United Nations Development Programme Arah Human Development Report 2003 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2005 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2001 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), International Telecommunications Union World Telecommunication Development Report 2003, G8 DOT Force Report, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministry of Communications, Computer Industry Almanac, Egypt National Telecommunication Regulatory Agency, Global Reach Internet Statistics, International Telecommunication Union Key Global Telecom Indicators, International Telecommunication Union Mobile Overtakes FixedInternet World Stats, Nicaragua Telecommunication Regulator, NUA Internet Surveys, New Partnership for Africa's Development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Sultanate of Oman Telecommunications Regulatory Authority,United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wired

[xtraze]

I use 2 phones lol
Mobile + home. And to be without a phone, what about E-mails ?
I know its hard to estimate such things for e-mails as I have 4 or 5.

[TcM]

Well I have 2 phones too ( land line and mobile ) and I have 20+ emails ( some of them I used them once ) but I have 6 or so as my main emails.

[AfTriX]

Hmm, I'm with two mobile phones, and a land phone. E-Mails 5.

[techni68]

Wow..lots of sources for your facts.. I love reading facts and trivia!

[DevilsCharm]

I always wonder how they get statistics like these, and why they even bother. Sure, they're cool, but I wouldn't want to be the one stuck collecting this info.

[techni68]

You know all those silly surveys people end up taking on the internet..? That is some ways they get statistics. Other ways is the telephone call that comes when you are in the middle of your evening meal. Telemarketers are instruments for these statistics to be acquired.