http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/ Engadget Comments for Ericsson estimates mobile lines have hit 5 billion, gives shout out to China and India for the help http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
Now all we need is a universal translator and we'll take humanity to a whole new level.]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
http://lifehacker.com/5466548/google-working-on-speech+to+speech-phone-translation]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
Level 42?]]>Jul 15th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/That's not what they're saying. I have 2 mobile lines, I know some people with 3+]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Closer to 5 out of 7. Roughly 6.8 Billion people in the world, although they really don't know about India or China. ]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/three personal phones o.0! holy crap how do they keep up with that]]>Jul 15th 2010 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
Remember all those dual SIM phones in China? That's two lines right there (if ppl actually put 2 SIMs in, of course). ]]>Jul 15th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
A lot of people put 2 SIMs in those, I know a guy that runs a little electronics/phone store and he imports and sells a lot of these Chinese dual-SIM phones.

The target market for them are foreign students and immigrants that use 1 SIM card for their local number and 1 SIM card for their number back home to talk with their families.]]>Jul 15th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 16th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
Are you really that stupid?

Have you been using the same phone for the past 10 years?]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/This actually doesn't talk about people, it says subscriptions, a lot of people have 2 subscriptions. I also guess some of this subscriptions are active but not really used, ie PAYG numbers that aren't used anymore but have not yet been canceled and recycled

@BrianH
subscriptions, not phones, you can have 100 old phones from the past 10 years that you are not using, but if you have 1 phone number you count as 1 subscription.]]>Jul 15th 2010 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
yup, a lot of people in india dont have clean water or food but they do indeed have cellphones.

its dirt cheap there, when it went there for my summer visit i got a pay as you go plan that was 30 paisa per minute, or 6/10ths of a US penny.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
yup almost every1 in India has a cell phone. They might not have a house to live, or clean water nor electricity (if they have a house), but they do have a cell phone. Incoming calls are free in India and outgoing costs like 0.0064515 USD/minute. The telecomm revolution was really a boon for the common people in India.]]>Jul 15th 2010 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
I have two phones. One work phone (used only for data, but still has its own phone number) and one personal phone (used only for voice/text). So I guess after each person in the world has a phone, we'll start the process where everyone has two.]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/oh cool. thanks!]]>Jul 15th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
just though i'd share]]>Jul 15th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
I think the wording might need to be changed; the way it is now makes it sound like 5 billion cellphone lines were activated last Wednesday.]]>Jul 15th 2010 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Actually, the wording doesn't.]]>Jul 15th 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/
You're right. Thanks for pointing that out.]]>Jul 15th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 15th 2010 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/Jul 16th 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/ericsson-estimates-mobile-lines-have-hit-5-billion-gives-shout/I've never seen a mobile line.
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