OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the number of German cell-phone users nearly doubled from 1999 to 2000, two new market forecasts are now predicting that growth in 2001 will have slowed dramatically to between 12 percent and 18 percent.
Market researcher Matthias Plica said that he now expects the number of cell phone users to reach 57 million by the end of this year, up from 48 million at the end of 2000, giving a growth of 18 percent, while industry analysts with GfK Gesellschaft f
