Mike Temporale
07-05-2004, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20040702/tc_afp/sweden_telecom' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20040702/tc_afp/sweden_telecom</a><br /><br /></div>"The number of Swedish cell phone subscriptions has surpassed the number of inhabitants in the Scandinavian country. Having ballooned by 10 percent over the past year, the number of Swedish mobile phone subscriptions reached 9.07 million by the end of March, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported on Friday, quoting statistics from industry newsletter Telekommarknaden. In a country that is home to only 8.98 million people, the cell phone subscription penetration rate is thus 100.1 percent. That rate is expected to continue to swell, with Telekommarknaden predicting that the number of cell phone subscriptions in the country would hit 9.6 million by the end of the year."<br /><br />So not only does every man, woman and child have a mobile phone, some of them have 2! No wonder there are only 5.4 million land-based lines in the country. :lol: