World ICT Facts

Report from international telecoms union: the world is mobile, read this report http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/Telecom09_flyer.pdf

• Mobile cellular has been the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Today it is the most popular and widespread personal technology on the planet, with an estimated 4.6 billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2009
  
• Mobile broadband subscriptions overtook fixed broadband subscribers in 2008, highlighting the huge potential for the mobile Internet
  
• In 2009, more than a quarter of the world’s population are using the Internet
  

Smartphone Marketshare 08

Table of smartphone marketshare 2008 from ABI Research

Report LINK

Legend: SS = Samsung, Sony E = Sony ericsson, Mot = Motorola

Wikipedia has different numbers for the last quarter of 2008 - showing the iPhone in second place!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone











A third report below for Q3 2008

http://www.canalys.com/pr/2008/r2008112.htm

"The introduction of the iPhone 3G in July and Apple’s expansion
into many more countries helped propel the vendor to second place
globally, taking it above RIM in the quarter and resulting in higher
shipments than for all the Microsoft-based smart phones combined."