Cell Phone Market to Continue Growth

Resarch firm Deliotte and Touche said Tuesday that it expects the mobile phone market to grow to 2 billion subscribers during 2005. Driving the market as a whole will be developing markets in Central America and Asia. The firm also said market penetration would pass 100 percent in some areas as users acquire a second phone for data or personal uses. There were 1.5 billion cell phone subscribers at the end of 2004.