The CDMA Development Group (CDG) (www.cdg.org) today reported that  there were nearly 135 million CDMA subscribers and 24 million CDMA2000 users worldwide at  the end of the third quarter of 2002.

"CDMA is the fastest growing wireless technology and dominates the 3G market today," said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG. "CDMA has made phenomenal progress in the past and it is well positioned for the future. In the coming years, CDMA will expand to new markets, gain market share and, with CDMA2000 1X and 1xEV, will continue to lead in delivering the most advanced 3G services around the world."

The CDMA subscriber base grew by 31 percent over the past 12 months, driven by new deployments in Asia, Latin America and Europe and the tremendous success of CDMA2000  services.

There are 80 million CDMA users in the Americas. In North America, CDMA is the dominant wireless technology with more than 58 million subscribers. Latin America is one of the  fastest growing regions for CDMA. As of September 2002, there were 26 million subscribers in the Central and Latin America region, a 40 percent increase over the past year.

In Asia, the number of subscribers increased by nearly 9 million, or 21 percent, since October 2001 as China Unicom launched cdmaOneTM services and CDMA2000 attracted new users in  Korea and Japan.

The CDMA2000 subscriber base grew by more than 10 million during 3Q 2002. Nearly 18 percent  of CDMA subscribers worldwide have access to 3G CDMA2000 services today. In Korea, more than  40 percent of subscribers are using CDMA2000, twice as many as at the beginning of 2002.

 

Mobile Statistics Snapshot [12/2003] Click for more
Total Global Mobile Users	1.3 billion
Total Analogue Users	34m
Total US Mobile users	140m
Total Global GSM users	870m
Total Global CDMA Users	164m
Total Global CDMA2000 Users	60m
Total TDMA users	120m
Total European users	320m
Total African users	35m
Total 3G users	130m
Total South African users	14m
European Prepaid Penetration	63%
European Mobile Penetration	70.2%
Global Phone Sales 2002	423.4m
#1 Mobile Country	China (200m)
#1 GSM Country	China (1950m)
#1 SMS Country	Philippines
#1 Handset Vendor 3Q03	Nokia (35.5%)
#1 Network In Africa	Vodacom (8.5m)
#1 Network In Asia	Unicom (144m)
#1 Network In Japan	DoCoMo
#1 Network In Europe	T-Mobil (25m)
#1 In Infrastructure	Ericsson
Global monthly SMS/user	36
SMS Sent Globally 4Q02	95 billion
SMS sent in UK 10/03	1.8 billion
SMS sent Germany 4Q02	30 billion
SMS Sent 2002	366 billion
GSM Countries on Air	190
GSM Association members	574
Total Cost of 3G Licenses in Europe	120bn Euros
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2. Mannesmann Mobilfunk (Germany)
3. Omnitel (Italy)
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5. DeTeMobil D1 (Germany)
6. Telefónica MoviStar (Spain)
7  Cegetel SFR (France)
8. Orange (UK)
9  Vodafone (UK)
10  Airtel (Spain)

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