It may not be surprising for many people to know that the biggest mobile phone market is in Asia, but what would surprise most people a great deal would be that the fastest growth rate in this industry is not in China, India or some developing Southeast Asian nation, but North Korea.
According to the Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper, mobile phone subscriptions in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea grew at a staggering rate of 18,750 percent, jumping from only 1,600 subscribers in 2008 to over 300,000 during the third quarter of last year.
