Which is the World’s Largest Mobile Phone Market?

I have written before about the explosion of cell phone growth subscriptions in emerging markets. A new study by Euromonitor confirms that Asia Pacific is te world’s largest mobile phone market.

Some key points from the report:

• China has the world’s largest cell phone subscribers at 707 million in 2009
• Asia Pacific had 46% of the global total subscriptions
• The mobile phone penetration rate remains below global average in China and India
• In 2009, Asia Pacific had 2.1 billion phone subscriptions

Charts

Mobile phone subscriptions and population penetration rates in Asia Pacific: 2009

Real growth of per capita consumer expenditure on communications: 2004-2009

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