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[00:01.40]From in information given in the above column chart, we can see
[00:05.63]a striking contrast between mobile-phone subscriptions between developing and developed countries from 2000 to 2008.
[00:14.07]During this period,
[00:15.48]there has been a dramatic increase from 0.4 to 4 billion mobile-phone subscriptions in developing countries,
[00:24.02]while that of developed countries remained steady under 1 billion.
[00:28.64]At least two fundamental factors could contributed to this phenomenon.
[00:33.95]On the one hand, with the rapid increase in economy happening in the developing countries,
[00:39.15]the telecommunication industry in those countries got a great bound to meet the demand of globalization.
[00:46.36]As a result, the user of mobile phone which can narrow the distance between people
[00:52.53]and link the whole world together rose at an incredible speed.
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