Advance Australia’s Fares

By MattyBcloseAuthor: MattyB Name: Matt Bortone
Email: matt.barr@trafficbroker.co.uk
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About: I've been a fan of mobile phones...since the beginning. Being a poor sharecropper's son, I'm less gadget-obsessed than some of our reporters who seem to have developed an unhealthy attachment to the idea of the HTC Diamond. Instead, I'm interested in the way mobiles have changed our lives at work, at home and anywhere else that people cooler than me go.See Authors Posts (60)

Strewth! Its a well-known piece of trivia that Australia has more sheep than people (possibly up to 10 times as many) but now mobile phones are starting to overtake the population size too.

If you head to the land down under you’ll find over 21.26 million phones in a population of 21.29 million. But if you want to use a public phone, you’ll be sharing with around 400 other people. Experts and sly cell-phone promoters accredit this growth to the rise of 3G services (plus the deactivation of many remote phone booths).

Meanwhile, China’s mobile phone user-base reached over 574 million this March. Mobiles are officially taking over the world.

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