India Sees 26% More New Cellphone Subscribers Additions Than China In Q1

India added 110 million new subscribers, 26 percent more than China’s 87 million addition, in the first quarter of 2007, according to an International Telecommunications Union report. [via AFP]

Some 61 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers are in developing countries, with China, India, Brazil and Russia at the forefront, the ITU said. It cautioned however that the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) are lagging behind both in terms of mobile phone penetration and high-speed internet connections such as broadband. Only 22 out of 50 LDCs offered broadband in 2006, and users in these countries often pay extortionate rates for relatively low-speed connections.

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