www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a report issued by an International Telecommunication Union, 57% of people in developing nations were mobile phone subscribers. 4.6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of last year has also been estimated in the report compared with about one billion in 2002.

An estimated 1.7 billion people, or 26% of the world’s population, were online last year, up from 11 per cent in 2002.

China comprises a third of the people online in the developing world, still, four out of five people living in poor countries had no access to the internet. It has also been found that general access to the internet, telephones and other technologies was becoming cheaper, with the cost dropping in nearly every country last year.