Compare Telephones - mobile cellular (2003) - Telephones - mobile cellular (2001)

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	Telephones - mobile cellular (2003)	Telephones - mobile cellular (2001)
Albania	250,000 (2001)	3,100 (1999)
Angola	25,800 (2000)	7,052 (1997)
Anguilla	1,629 (2000)	NA
Antarctica	NA; Iridium system in use	NA
Armenia	50,000 (2002)	6,220 (1997)
Australia	8.6 million (2000)	6.4 million (1998)
Austria	6 million (2001)	4.5 million (2000)
Azerbaijan	800,000 (2002)	40,000 (1997)
Benin	55,500 (2000)	4,295 (1997)
Botswana	270,000 (September 2001)	NA
Bulgaria	1.054 million (2001)	596,000 (2000)
Burkina Faso	25,200 (2000)	1,503 (1997)
Burundi	30,000 (2002)	619 (1997)
Cameroon	300,000 (2002)	4,200 (1997)
Canada	8,751,300 (1997)	4.207 million (1997)
Cape Verde	28,119 (2002)	19,729 (1997)
Central African Republic	710 (1998)	570 (1997)
Chad	5,500 (2000)	NA
Christmas Island	NA	0 (1999)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA	0 (1999)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	15,000 (2000)	8,900 (1997)
Congo, Republic of the	3,300 (1998)	1,000 (1996)
Cote d'Ivoire	450,000 (2000)	322,500 (May 2000)
Croatia	1.3 million (2001)	187,000 (yearend 1998)
Djibouti	5,000 (2002)	203 (1997)
East Timor	NA	-
Ecuador	384,000 (1999)	160,061 (1997)
Equatorial Guinea	300 (1998)	NA
Eritrea	NA; note - mobile cellular service was introduced in May 2001	NA
Estonia	711,000 (yearend 2001)	475,000 (yearend 2000)
Ethiopia	17,800 (2000)	4,000 (1999)
Finland	3,728,600 (2001)	2,162,574 (1997)
Gabon	120,000 (2000)	9,500 (1997)
Georgia	185,500 (2000)	30,000 (1997)
Germany	55.3 million (June 2001)	15.318 million (April 1999)
Ghana	150,000 (2001)	30,000 (yearend 1998)
Greenland	12,676 (yearend 1999)	12,676 (end 1999)
Guinea	21,567 (1998)	2,868 (1997)
Guinea-Bissau	0 (2001)	NA
Haiti	over 180,000 (January 2003)	0 (1995)
Iceland	248,131 (221,231 GSM, 26,900 NMT) (2001)	65,746 (1997)
Ireland	3 million (2002)	2 million (2001)
Kazakhstan	400,000 (2001)	11,202 (1997)
Kenya	540,000 (2001)	5,345 (1997)
Korea, South	28 million (September 2000)	27 million (June 2000)
Latvia	401,263 (2000)	77,100 (1997)
Lesotho	21,600 (2000)	1,262 (1996)
Liberia	0 (1998)	0 (1995)
Libya	20,000 (1998)	NA
Lithuania	500,000 (2001)	297,500 (November 1998)
Macau	158,251 (November 2001)	120,957 (2000)
Madagascar	63,100 (2000)	4,000 (1997)
Malawi	49,000 (2000)	7,000 (1997)
Malaysia	5 million (2000)	2.698 million (1999)
Mali	40,000 (2001)	2,842 (1997)
Marshall Islands	489 (2001)	365 (1996)
Mauritania	35,000 (2001)	NA
Mauritius	180,000 (2000)	37,000 (1997)
Micronesia, Federated States of	newly installed in Pohnpei and Yap	NA
Mozambique	287,000 (2002)	18,500 (2000)
Namibia	82,000 (2000 est.)	NA
New Zealand	2.2 million (2000)	588,000 (1998)
Niger	6,700 (2002)	13,000 (1995)
Nigeria	200,000 (2001)	26,700 (1997)
Palau	1,000 (2002)	0 (1988)
Philippines	11.35 million (2001)	1.959 million (1998)
Poland	13 million (2002)	1.78 million (1998)
Reunion	197,000 (September 2000)	85,000 (1999)
Russia	19 million (January 2003)	2.5 million (October 2000)
Rwanda	81,000 (2001) note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several prefecture capitals (2002)	NA note: however, Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several prefecture capitals (2000)
Saudi Arabia	2.9 million (2002 est.)	1 million note: in 1998, the government contracted for the installation of 575,000 additional Group Speciale Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone lines over 15 months to raise the total number of subscribers to more than one million; Riyadh planned to further expand the GSM system in 1999 by adding an additional one million lines (1998)
Senegal	373,965 (2001)	1,149 (1996)
Serbia and Montenegro	87,000 (1997)	-
Sierra Leone	30,000 (2001)	650 (1999)
Singapore	2.74 million (2000)	2.333 million (November 2000)
South Africa	7.06 million (2001)	over 2,000,000 (1999)
Swaziland	45,000 (2001)	30,000 (2000)
Thailand	3.1 million (2002)	2.3 million (1998)
Turkey	17.1 million (2001)	12.1 million (1999)
United Kingdom	43.5 million (yearend 1998)	13 million (yearend 1998)
Uruguay	350,000 (2001)	300,000 (2000)
Uzbekistan	130,000 (2003)	26,000 (1998)
Vanuatu	310 (2000)	154 (1996)
Yugoslavia	-	87,000 (1997)
Zambia	90,000 (2002)	6,000 (1998)
Zimbabwe	111,000 (2001)	70,000 (1999)