The seven nations where SIM CARDS outnumber PEOPLE The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's (OECD's) latest broadband statistics update reports that about 72 per cent of the group's residents now have access to broadband. Startlingly, the data also reports that seven nations - Finland, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Korea and the United States – now …
What also needs to be taken into account is people who have a smartphone + a company smartphone, for example, or a smartphone + dongle / laptop / tablet SIM.
Then there is emergency failover in corporations, where the leased line will fail over to DSL, then 4G.
Not forgetting things like mobile credit/debit card terminals, remote monitoring equipment etc. that run over 3G.
Or directors who just had to have a company phone, plus 3G tablet, plus 3G card for the laptop, not counting any personal devices. I guess though that at those heady heights there is no need seen to spend your own money on devices, when you can just bully the IT department into purchasing them for you at company expense. So maybe 3 SIMs per person is probably a fair maximum ^^;
Bitter, me? Perish the thought.
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