Asia will emerge as a wireless Web pioneer since it accounts for more than 25 percent of the world's total installed base of mobile phones, the report said. Mobile subscribers will likely exceed 366 million in 2004. Only 2.6 percent of mobile phones are currently used for wireless Internet use in the region, but IDC predicted the proportion will soar to nearly 40 percent by 2005. Get your MBizCentral news delivered by e-mail newsletters. Printer friendly version.
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