Only 1,697,254,041 more to get the full set.
Research firm The Mobile World reckons the number of mobile connections worldwide reached five billion in the first week of July, on the basis that Q1 2010 saw net additions of 168m, taking the total to 4.82 billion.
China and India alone added 94m in the three months ending 31st March 2010, and a further 50m in April and May.
The BRIC grouping (Brazil, Russia, India and China) made up 59.2 per cent of the total net additions, and the so-called "Next Eleven‟, which includes Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico and Iran, contributed 20.1 per cent.
By contrast, the G7 nations accounted for just 4.6 per cent of the Q1 gain.
At the current rate of growth, the Mobile World says 100 per cent global penetration should be hit before the end of 2014.
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