Monday, April 28, 2008

Signs of Progress- I Guess

From the ABC:



Mobile phones outnumber Australians

For the first time the number of mobile phones in Australia exceeds the population, with recent growth being driven by a dramatic increase in 3-G phones.

Figures from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) show there are now 21.26 million active phone services in the country.

The figure marked an increase of almost 8 per cent on the previous year.

"There are now more than 4.5 million 3-G mobile services in Australia, a 192 per cent increase between 30 June 2006 and 30 June 2007,' said ACMA chairman Chris Chapman in a statement.

In what the report described as a continuous trend, the number of fixed-line services dropped from 11.26 million to 10.92 million in the past financial year.

The number of payphones across the country - both privately and publicly operated - dropped by 8,368 to 49,862.



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  1. Interesting statistics. About the only places we see pay phones anymore are outside the Mexican stores. It used to be there would be bunches of them in malls but they're all gone now. I guess they just don't get the business anymore.

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