CBC News - Consumer Life - Global cellphone use soaring: UN
Cellphone subscriptions around the world are expected to reach 4.6 billion this year and will likely continue to grow rapidly, says a United Nations report.
According to the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency, the cellphone market continues to expand unabated, with subscriptions for mobile broadband services topping 600 million in 2009, outstripping fixed broadband by 100 million.
In Canada, there were just under 18.8 million cellphones in use, putting Canada at 38th in the world, behind such countries as Morocco, Poland and Australia, according to 2006 figures.