Response from: Grant

Talk 2000 Communications - Offer mobile phones, landline deals, vehicle tracking and broadband internet to both business and domestic customers. http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Communications/Wireless/

Response from: Brenda

I can’t give up my mobile. I use it daily, four or five times, at least. Sometimes it is annoying, but most of the time is useful.

Response from: Tomi T Ahonen

Hi Tom

Good story. Part is old news as the European count of mobile SUBSCRIPTIONS has gone past fixed landline subscriptions years ago. Mobile phone subscriber penetrations went past 100% for Europe in February of this year.

This EU report looks at households. So if a family of two parents and two teenager kids has four phones, it counts as one household with mobile phone(s). That is why this household count only now grew past households of mobiles.

The most telling numbers are those for Finland, Portugal, Austria and Italy. Four very advanced markets for telecoms infrastructure, in fact Finland was the world's most advanced fixed landline market back in the late 1990s, even ahead of Sweden. That these countries are abandoning fixded landline connections for mobile-only, between Italy's 25% and Finland's 47% - this is the BIG nail into the coffin of fixed landline operator business. Yes, Skype is killing them too, but this is the big one. Oh, and similar stats also appearing in Asia leading as can be expected, with South Korea.

Tomi T Ahonen
4-time bestselling author lecturing at Oxford University on 3G Mobile
blogsite www.communities-dominate.blogs.com
website www.tomiahonen.com

Response from: broadband price comparison

71 percent of mobile households have three or more handsets

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