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With Swedes increasingly placing calls, surfing and sending text messages – the country’s mobile operators are rejoicing and experiencing increased traffic and revenues. For the first time, total revenues from services in mobile networks exceed revenues from fixed telephony according to a report from the telecoms regulator, the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS).
- In December 2007, nearly half a million customers used mobile Internet services (increase from just over 90,000 one year earlier).
- Data traffic in mobile networks has increased tenfold since 2006.
- During 2007, mobile phone users placed more, and longer calls and sent an average of 40 text messages per month.
- Revenues from mobile services totalled SEK 19.7 billion in 2007, a 12% increase since 2006.
- Mobile Internet services account for more than SEK 1 billion of revenues.
There were nearly 2.8 million subscriptions for fixed or mobile broadband at the end of 2007, which corresponds to 62 subscriptions per 100 households.
[Via: cellular-news]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
