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Published: 1 June 2006

Number of call minutes of outgoing calls from local telephone networks fell by a third from the previous year in 2005

In 2005, the number of calls made from local telephone networks in Finland totalled 1.5 billion, which was 28 per cent lower than in 2004. The number of call minutes fell by even more than this. The call minutes of outgoing calls from the local telephone networks numbered barely 7.5 billion in 2005, which was as much as 35 per cent down on the previous year's figure. In recent years, the key features in the development of telecommunications have been a decline in the use of services in the fixed telephone networks and growth in the use of other networks and subscription types. This development continued strong also in 2005. It should be pointed out, however, that these statistics do not cover calls transmitted in IP networks.

At the same time as the outbound call traffic from fixed networks declines, more and more calls are being transmitted in mobile networks. A total of four billion calls were made from mobile phones in Finland in 2005. The number increased by five per cent from 2004, and 2005 was the first year when the number of call minutes from mobile phones exceeded those from local telephone networks. Call minutes from mobile phones totalled 10.8 billion, which was 13 per cent more than in the year before.

The number of sent text messages also continued to grow in 2005. A total of over 2.7* billion of them were sent, averaging 507** messages per subscription, while the respective figures in 2004 were 2.2 billion and 439. The number of sent multimedia messages more than doubled from 2004, and totalled 16 million in 2005.

Despite the high diffusion of mobile phone subscriptions, the number of subscriptions continued to grow even further in 2005. At the end of the year, mobile phone subscriptions numbered nearly 5.4 million. The number grew by eight per cent from 2004. By contrast, the number of fixed telephone subscriptions fell even further during 2005 and at the end of the year they numbered just over 2.1 million.

There were 1.2 million broadband subscriptions in Finland at the end of 2005. During the year, the number went up by more than 50 per cent from the end of 2004. The transmission speed of 29 per cent of the subscriptions was 2 Mbps or higher; 19 per cent had a transmission speed of at least 2 Mbps but under 8 Mbps, and ten per cent of the subscriptions had a transmission speed of 8 Mbps or higher.

Subscriptions and calls in 1995 and in 2000-2005

Year	Subscriptions at year-end			Calls, million		Calls, million minutes
	Telephone sub- scriptions (fixed networks)	Mobile phone sub- scriptions	Broadband sub- scriptions	Fixed telephone networks	Mobile telephone networks	Fixed telephone networks	Mobile telephone networks
1995	2,799,379	1,039,126	..	3,164.0	149.4	11,754.4	316.1
2000	2,848,809	3,728,625	..	3,515.2	2,444.4	16,373.8	5,293.6
2001	2,806,172	4,175,587	..	3,365.7	2,921.3	16,781.1	6,519.8
2002	2,725,607	4,516,772	237,482	3,147.0	3,171.4	16,791.2	7,276.1
2003	2,567,592	4,747,126	472,100	2,455.1	3,403.6	13,831.6	8,160.7
2004	2,390,197	4,999,060	785,459	2,121.0	3,810.4	11,442.9	9,643.0
2005	2,139,713	5,384,572	1,210,527	1,531.4	3,995.2	7,475.1	10,848.2

* Revised figure 9.6.2006, (earlier 2,4).
** Revised figure 9.6.2006, (earlier 453).

Source: Telecommunications 2005. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Ms Mervi Niemi +358 9 1734 3263, tiede.teknologia@stat.fi

Director in charge: Ms Kaija Hovi

Tables

Appendix tables

• Infrastructure, fixed: Broadband access in OECD countries per 100 inhabitants in 2001-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, fixed: Broadband subscriptions in 2001-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, fixed: Built number capacity and the degree of utilisation of local exchanges in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, fixed: Number of fixed telephone subscriber lines, number of subscriber lines per 100 population and share of ISDN channels of all fixed lines in 1990 and 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, fixed: Number of public telephones maintained by telecommunications operators in 1990 and 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, fixed: Numbers of ISDN basic and primary subscriber lines in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, fixed: Subscriber lines and netgroup circuits in Finland in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Infrastructure, mobile: Number of mobile phone subscriptions and number of subscriptions per 100 population in 1980, 1985 and 1990-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls, fixed: Outgoing calls from local fixed networks in 2005 (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls, fixed: Total number of outgoing calls from (fixed) local networks and average length of call in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls, mobile: Number of outgoing mobile phone calls, change from previous year and average length of call in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Telecommunications, Finances: Turnover and breakdown of turnover of telecommunications operators in 1998-2005, per cent (1.6.2006)
• Telecommunications, Personnel: Personnel of telecommunications operators in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)

Figures

• Infrastructure, subscriptions: Numbers of fixed line and mobile telephone subscriptions in 1990 and 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls: Numbers of outgoing call minutes from the local telephone network and from mobile phones in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls: Numbers of outgoing calls from mobile phones in 2005, per cent (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls: Numbers of outgoing calls from private (domestic) subscriptions and corporate subscriptions in 2005, per cent (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls: Numbers of outgoing calls from the local telephone network and from mobile phones in 1995-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Phone calls: Outgoing calls from local fixed networks in 2005, per cent (1.6.2006)
• Short messages: Numbers of outgoing short messages from mobile phones and short messages and subscriber number on average from mobile phones in 2002-2005 (1.6.2006)
• Telecommunications, Finances: Investments of telecommunications operators in tangible assets and telecommunication networks in 2003-2005, EUR million (1.6.2006)

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Last updated 9.6.2006