India and China account for 35% active mobile services users worldwide

The mobile services remained dominated by GSM services with 75% market share. CDMA and HSPA (3G) accounted for 15% market share.


According to a study by telecom equipment maker Ericsson that around 4.1 4.1 billion active mobile services users are from  India and China only that account for 35% users worldwide, which is equal to around 60% of the world's population.
Ericsson Traffic and Market Data Report highlighted that "Global mobile penetration reached 85% in Q4 (last quarter) 2011 and mobile subscriptions now total around 6 billion. "However, the actual number of subscribers is about 4.1 billion, since many subscribers have several subscriptions,".
The report said India and China accounted for approximately 35% of the estimated 180 million net additions during last quarter of 2011.

Moreover, Globally, mobile broadband subscriptions have grown around 60% year-on-year and have reached close to 1 billion mark.