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2009-05-24 , 21:38
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
It indicates that approximately 86% (262,700,000) of the US population had cell phones in 2008. Remove a few people having more than one phone, and you still get a sizable number.
... even more OT: i wasn't aware of these figures. in austria (pop.: 8,316,487), there are ~10 million SIM cards in active use, which means a rate of over 120%.

i hadn't expected the gap to be so significant between the USA and a small european country.