GSM Wireless is the Unchallenged World Leader

Europe : The European Mobile Telephony Standard GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the Unchallenged World Leader. According to a new study by Merill Lynch, the European 2G standard, with its global market share of 68 percent, is by far the most widely-used mobile telephony technology in the world.

The study shows that the CDMA technology used in the United States and Asia comes in second place with a market share of only 13 percent. This is followed by TDMA, a technology that is primarily only used in South America, with just nine percent.

The analysts from Merril Lynch estimate that the Latin American market currently offers the biggest growth opportunity for GDM. Many providers are planning to switch to the higher-quality GSM network.Analysts from the market research company EMC World Cellular Database calculated that the GSM market in Latin America already grew by about 90 percent last year. In the USA and North America the growth rate was over 40 percent.

The association of this industry, GSM Association, envisages that the number of GSM customers worldwide will climb to over one billion by the end of 2003. At the end of 2002 approximately 787 million customers in more than 190 countries used phones in GSM networks.

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