Now if you think about it, mobility products in the third world make a lot of sense. For one thing, building the infrastructure for mobile phones is likely to be lower than that of land lines.
With a saturated market in Western Europe and North America and a user base adopting costly new third-generation features at a seemingly glacial pace, the mobile phone industry is turning to the Third World and asking the heads of developing countries to lift regulatory barriers.
According to Motorola CEO Ed Zander, addressing a forum at the 3GSM World Congress here Wednesday (Feb. 15), mobile phone penetration is a powerful engine for economic growth. He said, “Every time you have ten more phones per 100 people, you have an increase in GDP (gross domestic product) of 0.6 percent.” [Read the rest]
[tags]3gsm world congress,mobile phone industry,western europe[/tags]