More than 1.15 billion mobile phones were sold in previous year, a 16 per cent increase from 990.9 million in 2006, according to figures from Gartner.
The growth was driven mostly by rising markets, especially India and China. According to Carolina Milanesi, research director for mobile devices for Gartner, these markets saw many people buying their first phone.
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NEW DELHI: Virgin Group plans to enter the Indian mobile phone market and will announce details of the new venture possibly within a month, group chairman Richard Branson said on Sunday.
While Branson did not comment on a possible tie-up with Tata Teleservices, he said: “It is true we are planning a mobile phone business and we hope we will be able to announce it within the next month or two.”
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You can now pay all your bills with your phone.
Now you can swipe your mobile phone to purchase things, much like a credit card, with a Mumbai-based company rolling out a technology to enable this.
The company has already roped in Axis Bank for the service and is in the advanced stages of beta testing, while the commercial launch is just three months away.
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