Last month the beleaguered (past simple passive) mobile telecoms industry could allow (past simple passive+причастие) itself a momentary celebration. The number of - phone users had doubled (past perfect passive) in two years to pass (mod present simple passive) the 1 billion mark, China has just overtaken (past simple passive). America as the world's largest market and across Africa subscriptions were doubling (past progressive passive).
In Europe the market may have stagnated (present perfect passive) but across the world the mobile, in the early 1990s little more than a footnote in debates on the wired world, has leapt(present perfect passive) from obscurity towards ubiquity. The tool, once considered (present simple passive) a toy for the elite, has today crossed(present perfect passive) social and geographical boundaries to find (present simple passive) its way into the hands of the young, the old, the rich and the poor, even in communities largely untouched by new technologies.
Last year i was commissioned to study(present simple active)the sociological impact of mobile phone usage through several regions of Ac world. I was amazed(past progressive active) to see( past simpol passive) how fast, how far and with what diversity the mobile phone has spread(present perfect passive). Because in extends a most basic human quality — the ability to communicate(past simpol passive) — there are few aspects of life that it fails to much.