Because of that very big rate
of increase it was not surprising to see that in the year 2002 , the
number of world mobile subscribers for the first time has exceeded the
number of fixed lines . With the number of mobile subscribers being
close to 1 .2 billion at the end of 2002 as against the number of fixed
lines to be slightly below 1 .1 billion , it could be observed that rate
on increase for mobile services has overtaken...






