SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-During the next decade, worldwide cellular phone users are expected to more than double to 715 million from this year’s subscription numbers of 268 million, according to Baskerville Communications Corp. This 2008 subscription forecast represents 12.7 percent of the world population, up from 5.5 this year and 1.9 percent in 1995.
Baskerville predicts that Latin America will be the fastest-growing region and Finland will be the first country to achieve 50-percent market penetration. Eight other countries will join Finland at the benchmark by 2007, including Norway, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel, Australia, Japan and Denmark, said Baskerville.
