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]