Telecommunications

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Number of telecommunications subscriptions in Finland quadrupled in 20 years 09 Jun 2009 In 1988 there were a total of nearly 2.6 million telephone subscriptions in Finland; fixed telephone network subscriptions numbered nearly 2.5 million and mobile phone subscriptions some 140,000. In the past two decades, communication has changed from location-specific use of telephones to a more varied kind of communication not bound to a certain location in which non-voice services and data transmission have an increasingly important role alongside voice services. At the end of 2008 there were already over 10 million telecommunications subscriptions in Finland; fixed telephone network subscriptions numbered close on 1.7 million, mobile phone subscriptions 6.9 million and broadband subscriptions nearly 2.1 million. Next release: Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2010.
Description:	The annual statistics on telecommunications describe the state and development of telecommunications in Finland. The area of depiction of the statistics is limited to public telecommunication networks and communications via them. Telecommunications statistics cover telecommunications infrastructure and provide data on the volume of telecommunication services and on the activities of telecommunications operators, and the use of telecommunication services. Read full description >>>

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Statistics Finland

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Latest release:
Number of telecommunications subscriptions in Finland quadrupled in 20 years
09 Jun 2009
In 1988 there were a total of nearly 2.6 million telephone subscriptions in Finland; fixed telephone network subscriptions numbered nearly 2.5 million and mobile phone subscriptions some 140,000. In the past two decades, communication has changed from location-specific use of telephones to a more varied kind of communication not bound to a certain location in which non-voice services and data transmission have an increasingly important role alongside voice services. At the end of 2008 there were already over 10 million telecommunications subscriptions in Finland; fixed telephone network subscriptions numbered close on 1.7 million, mobile phone subscriptions 6.9 million and broadband subscriptions nearly 2.1 million.

Next release:
Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2010.

Description:

The annual statistics on telecommunications describe the state and development of telecommunications in Finland. The area of depiction of the statistics is limited to public telecommunication networks and communications via them. Telecommunications statistics cover telecommunications infrastructure and provide data on the volume of telecommunication services and on the activities of telecommunications operators, and the use of telecommunication services.
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