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Norway's Mobile Telephony
The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (NPT) had a historic announcement to make at a press conference on Monday, reports Aftenposten. "Mobile telephony has now become bigger than landline telephony in Norway. The biggest growth is in the Internet market with Norway a world leader in use of broadband". "According to the NPT, 96 out of 100 inhabitants have a mobile phone and Norsk Gallup reports that over ten percent have two or more mobile subscriptions. There are 4,376,000 mobile subscriptions registered in Norway - the population in Jan. 1 2003 was 4,554,000. The average mobile phone user sends an average of 82 messages a month, which breaks down as 68 SMS (Short Message Service) texts, 13 are content such as logos or ring tones, and one MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). |
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