Like the rest of you, I’ve been swamped with holiday and family obligations these past few weeks. My Bloglines feeds have piled up and it’s going to take me forever to catch up on what some of you (supplesomething, Brimful, J …) have written. I devoted my surf-time today to reading the 200 (!) posts that had accumulated from Om Malik on Broadband.

Om–whom I sweat ridiculously–had an interesting tidbit over at GigaOm; it stated that India is “Truly, a Cell Phone Nation”. He goes on to state:

There are 44 million cell phone users in India, versus 43 million land lines. IndiaÂ’s mobile market will grow 40% every year through 2007.

I don’t know why that statistic captured my attention so completely, but it did. More cell phone users! I guess it makes sense now that I think about it…

This article has more:

India has also emerged as the second-largest market after China for mobile handsets. Mobile phone makers such as Nokia , Siemens, Sony Ericsson , South Korea ‘s LG and Philips are racing to offer newer models to keep pace with demand.

I think one of my favourite things about India is the juxtaposition of future with past, forward with backwards. I’m ridiculously excited (especially after reading posts like this) to see what develops…