Around 40m subscribers will be using cellular telephone technology in the US by the end of the decade, GTE Corp forecasts: the Stamford, Connecticut phone company says that just above 10% of US households will then have cable-free service, and estimates that by 2000 the industry could well be worth more than $25,000m, slightly under 20% of today’s total US telecommunications market; nearer home, the company reckons that the subscriber base for cellular telephones will have doubled to 10m by the end of 1992 compared with 1990 – but the recession is hitting hard, with lower usage because businesses are facing lower levels of activity.
