By the end of July, global mobile phone use will for the first time pass the 3 billion mark--equivalent to half the world's population--as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa, a survey said on Wednesday.

From African farmers to Chinese factory workers, mobile operators will have notched up more than 3.25 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide by the end of the year, according to a report by U.K.-based telecommunications-analysis company The Mobile World.

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