Alex Reid

The International Telecommunications Union reports that there are 4.6 billion cellphone subscribers world-wide, a trend that outpaces Internet connectivity rates.

It should be noted that “subscribers” shouldn’t equate to “people” as some individuals have multiple phones. For example, both Israel and Italy have 1.3 cellphones per person. It was nearly a decade ago when Motorola found in a study that one in ten subscribers had a second cellphone for engaging in “extramarital affairs or clandestine business dealings”.

It is the developing countries that are seeing more cellphone usage because of its price thanks to steady competition (far better than Canada); the study says 57% of people in those countries are using cellphones.