2017 Reach 5 Billion Mobile Users

JAKARTA - Today the use of mobile devices such as cell phones is no longer a stranger. In fact, the number of mobile phone users is expected to continue to grow in the coming years.

Reported by Mashable, Friday (04/10/2013), this increase is reinforced by data from research firm eMarketer. Company predicts four years from now, mobile users will reach 5.1 billion worldwide.

Asia is expected to be the region that experienced the greatest growth in mobile phone users. Approximately 2.4 billion people in Asia have used mobile phones today, and will grow to 2.9 billion by 2017.

As a whole, mobile phone users in 2017 in the North America region is expected to reach 287 million, Europe 728 million, 472 million Latin America, and Middle East and Africa 671 million. The number was up this year compared with the composition of the mobile phone users 270 million in North America, Europe 672, Latin America 415 million, as well as the Middle East and Africa 526 million

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