Surveying 20 fixed network operators in 15 Arab countries, the Arab Advisors Group finds 27.8 million fixed line subscriptions in use at the end of September 2009, down from 29.2 million at year end 2008, a drop of 4.6 percent.
Globally, wireless stands at 67 percent penetration, according to the International Telecommunications Union, compared to 18 percent fixed voice line penetration.
That means there are about four mobile accounts in service for every fixed line. In the broadband access area, there already is 9.5 percent penetration of mobile broadband, globally, compared to 7 percent penetration of fixed broadband access, the ITU says.
Any way one looks at the matter, it increasingly is a wireless world.
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