India is the 2nd largest mobile telephone market in the world with over 1 Billion mobile telephones registered. By size, China is the first and the United States, Brazil and Russia are third, forth and fifth respectively. Brazil is third? Yes, Brazil is third.
With such a large command of the world mobile telephone market, India is starting to be taken quite seriously by the world mobile telephone providers. In India, the mobile phone market share is now moving away from the governmental providers to the private providers. The Mobile Carrier Market Share in India is 24% AirTel, 19% Vodafone, 17% Idea and 11% Reliance. That means that between the four largest mobile telephone carriers, they hold 71% of the market of the world’s second largest mobile telephone market. These are important statistics to know.
Programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com would be smart to move into coding and creating programs which run on mobile telephones. According to the trade group GSMA and the Mobile World Congress which starts today February 27th, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, by the end of this year 2016, mobile telephones will account for 50% of all mobile connections world wide. Increasingly, the Android platform is the one in which more and more mobile phones are based. Thus, if our programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com wish to be relevant to the almost 7 Billion mobile telephone users world wide, they would do well to be active in producing apps and coding for mobile telephones.
These are enormous numbers. If we think of the fact that in Indonesia, which has a population of 237 million people, there are approximately 237 million registered mobile telephones! That means that there is one mobile telephone in Indonesia for every man, woman and child in Indonesia – and worldwide, this trend is only continuing to rise, not decrease.
Therefore, we at IndiaFreelancers.com encourage our programmers and developers to please do all you can to become as proficient as possible at writing code and programming for mobile telephones. These devices are not only the future – they are the present.
Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com
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