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Today's second-generation GSM networks deliver high quality and secure mobile voice and data services (such as SMS - Text Messaging) with full roaming capabilities across the world.Today's GSM platform is a hugely successful wireless technology and an unprecedented story of global achievement. In less than ten years since the first GSM network was commercially launched, it became the world's leading and fastest growing mobile standard, spanning over 190 countries.Today, GSM technology is in use by more than one in ten of the world's population and it is estimated that at the end of 2002 there were 787 million GSM subscribers across the 190 countries of the world.The growth of GSM continues unabated with more than 160 million new customers in the last 12 months. Since 1997, the number of GSM subscribers has increased by a staggering 10 fold. During late 2003 or early 2004, it is predicted that global GSM subscribers will smash through the one billion mark.The
progress hasn't stopped there. Today's GSM platform is living, growing and evolving
and already offers an expanded and feature-rich 'family' of voice and data enabling
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