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The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and according to the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications Association, developing nations will be keen users of mobile technology in the near future.
London, Sept.8 : The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and according to the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications Association, developing nations will be keen users of mobile technology in the near future.
On September 7, 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on GSM technology, and now the GSM Association claims that there are over 2.5 billion accounts that use this mobile phone technology.
Adoption of the technology shows no signs of slowing down.
Robert Conway, the current head of the association, said the memorandum of understanding signed in 1987 is widely seen as the moment when the global mobile industry got under way.
To illustrate this boom, there are 2.5 billion GSM connections worldwide, and 64 percent of mobile users are in emerging markets. About seven billion text messages are sent every day.
Figures from the GSM Association show it took 12 years for the first billion mobile connections to be made but only 30 months for the figure to reach two billion.
"In the developing world they are becoming absolutely indispensable," says Conway.
Getting mobiles into the hands of billions of people is just the start, he adds.
In the future, he suggested, high-speed networks would be ubiquitous adding the intelligence of mobiles to anything and everything.
"The technology will be in the fabric of your clothing, your shoes, in appliances, in your car," he said.
The ubiquity of mobile technology could revolutionise healthcare and see people wearing monitors that gather and transmit information about vital signs.
Phones too could change radically in the future.
"You'll pull them out of your pocket and they'll look like a map, but unfold like a screen. We're now on the verge of another wave and that's going to be stimulated by mobile broadband," Conway said.
ANI
