Half the world’s population has a mobile

MORE than half the world’s population have a mobile phone account, according to a UN report.

By the end of last year an estimated six in 10 people, or 4.1 billion, had subscriptions globally, compared with about a billion in 2002, said the International Telecommunication Union.

Fixed line subscriptions increased at a much slower pace to 1.27 billion from about a billion over the same period.