Are you curious about how many people are using mobile phones as of this day? Well I have gathered some information from Informa Telecoms & Media, 3G Americas, and Telstra. The institutions estimate represents 60% of the entire global population today. Check this out!

“The Latin America and Caribbean region continues to show steady consumer growth with 16% year-on-year growth as subscription numbers are expected to reach in excess of 440 million, equating to 76% penetration,” noted Marisol Gomez, Americas regional analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media. “The market in the region to have shown the greatest number of net additions in the year was unsurprisingly Brazil [19 million], but in terms of annual growth, we note that Peru has been a particularly fast growing market with 4.6 million net additions, representing annual subscription growth of 33%.”

“Third generation technologies continue to evolve and the GSM operator today has a clear path towards LTE,” stated Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas. “In addition to the evolution to LTE by GSM operators, LTE is proving to be the technology choice for CDMA operators as well.”

“HSPA and HSPA+ will compete with any and all mobile wireless technologies available today and in the near future,” concluded Pearson. “In fact, recent commercial launches of HSPA+, such as that of Telstra in Australia, are reporting peak theoretical downlink speeds of 21.6 Mbps. 3G is more than capable of delivering the bandwidth customers need today, and the emerging LTE technology provides us with a clear evolution path for the future.”