According to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority, there were 888,628 mobile phone subscribers at the end of April - an increase of more than 90,000 over the end of March figure.
These phones have dropped in price substantially from a few years ago. You can buy one for less than $4,000, but the air time is by no means cheap. Try counting the amount of users in any dense urban area and you will find that at least one in six people has a mobile.
Whether they were bought as a fashion accessory, to chat with friends or as a business tool, a whopping number of new subscribers came on board in April alone.
In May, there were 35,000 new subscribers. Does anyone remember CT2? These were low-cost, low-range devices favoured by people who wanted mobile communications but could not afford a cellular.
While some operations have closed down, there were still 48,233 CT2 subscribers on the authority's books at the end of April, although their numbers have been declining for the past 12 months.
