“The continued rapid growth in mobile subscriptions has exceeded even
the mobile industry’s own estimates. Since the early 1990’s we have
seen voice go truly wireless and mobile phones evolve from voice
centric to feature driven devices. Earlier this summer, Nokia sold
our one billionth mobile phone – a Nokia 1100 sold in Nigeria,” says
Öistämö. “It will be new growth markets like Nigeria that will fuel
the growth towards three billion subscribers by 2010.”