A latest UN report stated that six out of ten persons have a cell phone in the growing world.

An international Telecommunication Union study released on Tuesday stated that 57% of people in developing countries were cellphone subscribers.

At the end of 2009, there were around 4.6 billion mobile subscriptions as against one billion in the year 2002.

"The rate of progress remains remarkable," the report stated.

To make the report, the UN tallied cell phone, land-line phone and internet utilization in 159 nations that ranged form most innovative European countries to least developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The report also established that Internet usage has arisen, but at a slower speed.

An approximated 1.7 billion people (26% of the world's population) were online during 2009, up from 11% in 2002.

Still, four out of five people living in poor nations had no access to the cyberspace, with China including a third of the people online in the growing world.

"One important challenge in bringing more people online is the limited availability of fixed broadband access," the report said, adding that such services are mainly in the West and China.

It also discovered that general access to the cyberspace, phones and other techs was getting cheaper, with the cost dropping in nearly every nation last year.

In Macao, Hong Kong and Singapore, the costs were lowest as compared to people's earnings. (With Input from Agencies)