Mobile phone usage statistics from Korea
2009/02/19 09:29The JoongAng Daily reports on the saturation of the mobile phone market in Korea:
According to the Korea Communications Commission, there were 45.6 million cell phone users in Korea at the end of last year, up by 2.1 million from 2007. Considering the nation’s population of 48.62 million, 93 percent of Koreans use cell phones, while every Korean household has an average of 2.73 mobile phones, it noted.
KTF was part of a new research project presented at the Mobile World Congress that looked at how teenagers in five selected countries used their mobile phones:
According to the report, 87.7 percent of Korean 12 year olds have mobile phones, with Japan coming next closest at 50 percent, followed by Mexico at 45.1 percent. China's wireless penetration rate for 12 year olds was 27.7 percent and India came last at 11.6 percent.
You can read the report on the NTT Mobile Society Research Institute’s website.
SK Telecom shared some customer statistics during a session from last year’s GSMA Asia Congress:
The adoption of mobile broadband has enabled the operator to become a major player in the social networking and online music scene, Kim revealed, adding that the operator’s Melon music portal has become the biggest music portal in the market with 11 million users who subscribe to a plan that lets them listen to a library of 1.3 million songs for US$5 a month.
SKT users also upload 1.9 million user created content and 205 million photos every month, Kim said.
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