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Social Media Revolution Will Be .Tel-evised

The prediction of 1 billion .tel identities is based on trends in mobile phone adoption around the world. Parks Associates forecasts that by 2013 there will be 4.5 mobile phone users worldwide. This compares to 3 billion in February 2008, when the International Telecommunication Union announced that the total number of global cell phone subscribers had exceeded half the population of the globe.

From the article, "Social Media Revolution Will Be .Tel-evised" by Anthony Mitchell

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