[u]The future in new hands? [/u] September 2007, id21 insights, Issue #69 'Explosive' is the only way to describe mobile phone growth. Half the world's 6.5 billion people now use a mobile (up from two billion just two years ago). There are more than twice as many mobile owners in developing countries as in industrialised countries. Subscriber growth rates in developing countries are 25 percent per year, and double that in Africa. [url]http://www.id21.org/insights/insights69/index.html[/url]