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Infrastructure, mobile: Number of mobile phone subscriptions and number of subscriptions per 100 population in 1980, 1985 and 1990-2005
| Year | Mobile subscriptions | Change from previous year, % |
Subscriptions/ 100 pop. |
||
| Digital | Analogue1 | Total | |||
| 1980 | - | 23,482 | 23,482 | 0.5 | |
| 1985 | - | 67,639 | 67,639 | 1.4 | |
| 1990 | - | 257,872 | 257,872 | 5.2 | |
| 1991 | - | 319,137 | 319,137 | 23.8 | 6.4 |
| 1992 | 3,308 | 382,713 | 386,021 | 21.0 | 7.6 |
| 1993 | 19,111 | 470,063 | 489,174 | 26.7 | 9.6 |
| 1994 | 110,155 | 565,410 | 675,565 | 38.1 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 380,703 | 658,423 | 1,039,126 | 53.8 | 20.4 |
| 1996 | 830,585 | 646,391 | 1,476,976 | 42.1 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 1,523,356 | 568,435 | 2,091,791 | 41.6 | 40.6 |
| 1998 | 2,498,793 | 347,192 | 2,845,985 | 36.1 | 55.2 |
| 1999 | 3,073,943 | 199,490 | 3,273,433 | 15.0 | 63.4 |
| 2000 | 3,672,762 | 55,863 | 3,728,625 | 13.9 | 72.0 |
| 2001 | 4,137,337 | 38,250 | 4,175,587 | 12.0 | 80.4 |
| 2002 | 4,516,772 | - | 4,516,772 | 8.2 | 86.8 |
| 2003 | 4,747,126 | - | 4,747,126 | 5.1 | 90.9 |
| 2004 | 4,999,060 | - | 4,999,060 | 5.3 | 95.5 |
| 2005 | 5,384,281 | - | 5,384,281 | 7.7 | 102.4 |
1 By the end of 2002, the analogue mobile communications system
was wound up in Finland.
Source in 1980-2001: Ministry of Transport and Communications.
At the end of 2005, pre-paid subscriptions accounted for seven per cent of all mobile phone subscriptions. Approximately one fifth of all mobile phone subscriptions are in business use.
Last updated 1.6.2006
Contents (Telecommunications 2005)
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Telecommunications [e-publication].
2005,
Infrastructure, mobile: Number of mobile phone subscriptions and number of subscriptions per 100 population in 1980, 1985 and 1990-2005
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 27.5.2012].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/tvie/2005/tvie_2005_2006-06-01_tau_009_en.html.
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