But before you go deep into the Peruvian Amazon looking for a wireless connection, you should know that the data is a little skewed. For example, China alone accounts for a full billion of wireless subscribers (many of them newly subscribed this year). And India — another population dense area — is scheduled to hit one billion subscribers by the end of the year.
Other less populated places with more limited resources are less likely to enjoy the same subscription densities as the rest of the world.
But no matter how you slice it, the UN’s reported numbers are pretty impressive. As of this moment, 86 percent of the people on planet earth have a phone and a wireless plan. That’s a lot of people.
There are people in the US who don’t have vehicles, don’t own a house, don’t have a job. But they have a wireless device. Who you with? Team Apple or Team Android?
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