Posted by meb at December 28th, 2007

Significant growth in cell phone usage has led monthly cell phone sales to exceed 1 million units in Turkey, making Turkey an important market for cell phone producers.
Teleses Chairman Recep Uzelli, speaking to the Anatolia news agency, has said the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide had exceeded 3.3 billion as of the end of November, out of a world population of approximately 6.6 billion. However Uzelli said the number of subscribers was not equal to the number of users as one person may use more than one mobile operator. He said the case was similar in Turkey, which has a population of around 73 million and 60 million mobile phones, making it an important market.  He said the communications sector grew by 7 percent in 2006 while the growth in mobile phones was 40 percent. Uzelli said mobile phone usage was around 75 percent of possible users in Turkey and that he expects it will reach the saturation level by 2010.

source: Today’s Zaman