More Mobile Phones Than People In The UK

The UK has passed 10 million 3G mobile phone users for the first time this year, according to figures for Q1 released recently.

High speed W-CDMA connections reached the 10m mark during the first 3 months of 2008 to finish the quarter at 10.83m, up from 7.1m a year earlier. This takes the W-CDMA proportion to 15.3%, up from 10.5% last year.

Another impressive statistic from the report is that there are more mobile phones in the UK than there are people. Total mobile phone ownership in the UK stands at 70.67m which is 16% more than the actual population. The latest phone ownership figure has actually fallen by 119,000 customers since last year.

Mobile networks suffering a net loss in subscribers include O2, T-Mobile, Virgin and Tesco while Orange gained 114,000 subscribers, Hutchison (Three) gained 75,000 and Vodafone 41,000.

source : http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/