10-millionth subscriber marks unprecedented growth in cell phones
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Organization:Mobile Phone News |
| Description: | Cellular telephone industry sets customer mark on way to projected subscriber base of 20 to 27 million by 1997. Article pubished in Mobile Phone news, December 7, 1992. The article begins: " The cellular industry recently met the 10-million subscriber milestone with the addition of a BellSouth subscriber in New Iberia, La. Despite the U.S. economic recession, the cellular industry signed on 1.3 million subscribers in the past six months, equating to 7,600 new subscribers every day. Industry analysts project cellular subscribers to reach between 20 million to 27 million by 1997. In less than a decade, cellular evolved from a luxury service to an important alternative to wired phone service. "In just nine years, faster than any other communications technology, we have created. from scratch an industry that serves 10 million people. We have extended the most advanced wireless technology yet developed from the big city to the countryside," said Thomas Wheeler, president and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association." |
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| Keywords: | cell phone cellular phone mobile phone |
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| Publication Date: | December 1992 |
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| Download URL: | http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3457/is_n25_v10/ai_1323485 |
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