Europeans Switching To Mobile Phones En Masse

November 27, 2007 – 8:37 am

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Europeans are going wireless in a big way, with more of them dumping their traditional “land lines” every day. A new study now shows that one out of five people in the European Union are now using wireless connections only. The number is expected to grow.

Eurostat said that last year 18 percent of households had mobile phone access only as subscriptions for wireless handsets soared to 95 per 100 habitants in 2005 from eight in 1996.

The data embraced all 27 EU countries except Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the bloc this year.

The study showed that the number of households relying only on a mobile telephone tended to be higher in EU newcomers from central and eastern Europe — 42 percent in the Czech Republic, compared with 11 percent in Germany.

Luxembourg lead all the EU counties in the number of wireless subscriptions.

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