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GSM corners world marketTHE global system for mobile communications (GSM), has proved to be the leading digital standard for cellular communications, with the number of users in the world almost doubling to 30-million during 1995. By 1999 it is expected that more people will be using GSM than all other mobile technologies combined. GSM is the system used by both network operators in South Africa. The GSM community's forecast for the year 2000 is 150-million users. "There are currently 208 GSM network operators in 105 countries, accounting for more than 25% of the global wireless market," says Alan Knott-Craig, Vodacom's group managing director, who attended a recent GSM symposium in Cannes. "This is a remarkable achievement for a technology which has only been in the market for less than 10 years. By the end of 1996 it is estimated that GSM call traffic for the year will total some 26-billion minutes." Knott-Craig says the network currently has 42 000 active pre-paid subscribers on its network and more than 520 000 contracted subscribers.
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