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Published: 5 June 2008

Volume of services in mobile networks continued to grow in 2007

Similarly to earlier years, the use of services in the mobile communication network grew in 2007 from the previous year. Call minutes from mobile phones amounted to some 13.5 billion, which was nearly 3.4 times as much as the call minutes from local telephone networks during the year. Outgoing calls from mobile phones totalled just short of 4.8 billion, which was 7 per cent more than in 2006.

Similarly to the number of outgoing calls from mobile phones, the numbers of text and multimedia messages grew. A total of nearly 3.2 billion text messages were sent in 2007, which is 3 per cent more than in 2006, and the number of multimedia messages sent was nearly 29 million, which is one-third up from the year before. The use of the mobile communication network was increased also by the growth in the volume of data transmissions, which was affected by the introduction of mobile broadband connections.

In 2007, the number of calls made from local telephone networks totalled slightly over one billion, which was 19 per cent less than in 2006. The number of call minutes fell by over one-fourth from the year before and stood at slightly over 4 billion in 2007.

The development in the number of subscriptions continued like that of the past years. The number of fixed telephone subscriptions continued to decrease and stood at a good 1.7 million at the end of 2007. By contrast, the number of broadband subscriptions grew by 20 per cent from the year before and totalled over 1.7 million at the end of the year. The number of mobile communication network subscriptions grew despite the already high diffusion of mobile subscriptions. At the end of 2007 there were nearly 6.1 million such subscriptions.

Numbers of outgoing call minutes from the local telephone network and from mobile phones in 1995-2007

Numbers of outgoing call minutes from the local telephone network and from mobile phones in 1995-2007

Source: Telecommunications 2007, Statistics Finland

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Telecommunications [e-publication].
2007. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 28.3.2024].
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