What Country Has More Than 100% Mobile Phone Penetration?

[Jeffrey]

Take a guess... NO GOOGLING PLEASE

 

[leeshor]

S Korea?

 

[bweN diorD]

i say China, but bet its some less populated country no one would suspect.

 

[UltraDroid]

I agree with Lee - my guess would be South Korea.

 

[dezymond]

Japan or South Korea

 

[bweN diorD]

so i googled this, didnt find the answer (stopped looking really), but realized i misinterpreted the question.
i thought you meant service penetration. i see now, you meant accounts vs citizens.
interestingly enough, before i stopped looking i found the reason your stats are so high.
instead of counting a user having an account(s) as 1, they counted the accounts and ignored the user.
by this failed logic, its easily possible to have well over 100% penetration.

 

[Jeffrey]

I believe they did take the user into account.

 

[sajgel]

you cant have more than 100%

 

[Jeffrey]

you cant have more than 100%

Ya think?

 

[Macktion]

China would be my guess. Anytime reported numbers are whacked, I suspect China.

Swyped from my Yoga 8

 

[kodiak799]

Multiple phones could lead to over 100%.

Anyway, I'll guess Lichenstein - small, wealthy population. Runners-up: Belgium, Netherlands and S. Korea.

 

[Jeffrey]

South Korea’s mobile market passed the 110% penetration rate mark in 2013. -
This is due to S Koreans, having more than one active mobile device.






Source: Gartner

 

[kodiak799]

I actually saw a survey that showed a number of countries over 100%....Now S. Korea may be accurate...but those other numbers I'm referring to are probably because they are counting number of phones sold, cumulatively, over a period of years.

The correct way to measure it would be number of active mobile phone/data lines. And that could still be skewed by broadband (i.e., if I dropped home wifi for a data plan for my computer I would now count as 2 mobile devices eventhough nothing really changed).

 

[leeshor]

So did I win anything for being the first with the correct guess? :biggrin:

My reasoning was simply based on a) they are phone crazy in S Korea, and b) they seem to get a bigger selection of phones and earlier than most other parts of the world.

 

[Jeffrey]

So did I win anything for being the first with the correct guess? :biggrin:

My reasoning was simply based on a) they are phone crazy in S Korea, and b) they seem to get a bigger selection of phones and earlier than most other parts of the world.

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