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By Next Year, 50 Percent of European Calls Will Be on Cell Phones

by Terrence O'Brien on August 2, 2007 at 12:53 PM



According to Analysys, a European telecommunications and IT consulting firm, half of all calls made in Europe in 2008 will originate from mobile phones.

Cellular calls have been replacing landline communication at an amazing rate in the European Union (EU). In fact calls made from mobile phones accounted for just a few hundredths of a point shy of 75 percent of calls in Finland in 2006. In Germany, where landlines (a.k.a. regular phones) are still domimant, mobile phone calls rose six percent to make up almost 25 percent of all calls.

Analysys does not attribute the rise to an increase in talk time, but instead to a rapid abandonment of land line phones by Europeans.

From Textually.org and The Register

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