(Gross
Main Fixed
Domestic Telephone Lines
Country Product)
Mobile Cellular
Phones
Rank
Rank
per
Capita
Number
in
Number
in
World
World
United
$48,100 151,000,000
States
2 279,000,000
3
Ghana
Nigeria $2,600 1,050,000
$3,100
75 87,298,000
12
Mali
$1,300
277,900 119 17,436,000
114,400 144 7,326,000
48
85
Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook,
https://www.cia.gov
With a population of slightly over 170 million people, Nigeria is home to more
than half as many people
as the United States. Which statement can best be
inferred from the data in
the table above about the two kinds of phones in
each country
?
A. Nigerians are rapidly switching from cell phones to fixed lines
because reception in a developing country is less reliable.
B. Nigerians have fewer phone lines of either kind than Americans,
principally because their country has a smaller population.
C. Nigerians are far less likely than Americans to have a fixed
telephone line but only moderately less likely to have a cell phone.
D. Nigerians lag behind Americans in adopting up-to-date cellular
phone technology and depend primarily on old-fashioned fixed
lines