May 15- A UN agency report has predicted subscriptions of the gadgets will exceed seven billion by early next year meaning there will be more than the 7.1 billion people in the world.
Brahima Sanou, director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, told BBC News: “Every day we are moving closer to having almost as many mobile cellular subscriptions as people on earth.
“The mobile revolution is ‘m-powering’ people in developing countries by delivering ICT applications in education, health, government, banking, environment and business.”
What’s more, the report also found that 40 per cent of the world’s population are on the internet.
