"Want to find the hidden center of the global economy? Take a drive along
Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Freeway. This stretch of road is how you reach the
companies that connect the vast marketplaces and digital powerhouses of the U.S.
with the enormous manufacturing centers of China."
Mobile phone use has exploded in the last seven years, according to a U.N report.
The number of global subscriptions quadrupled from around 1billion in 2002 to 4.1billion at the end of last year.