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Table 1. 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 1995-2006

Year	Subscriber lines	Change, %	Subscriber lines/100 pop.	Share of ISDN channels, % 3)
1990	2 669 697		53,4
1995	2 799 379		54,7	0,8
19961)	2 801 924	0,1	54,6	3,0
1997	2 850 374	1,7	55,4	7,0
1998	2 841 497	-0,3	55,1	10,8
1999	2 850 305	0,3	55,1	16,8
2000	2 848 809	-0,1	55,0	21,6
2001	2 806 172	-1,5	54,0	23,3
20022)	2 725 607	-2,9	52,4	26,1
2003	2 567 592	-5,8	49,2	30,9
2004	2 390 197	-6,9	45,6	28,4
2005	2 139 713	-10,5	40,7	25,6
2006	1 909 165	-10,8	36,2	24,2

1) Revision of the compilation basis of statistics.

2) Number of primary ISDN subscriber lines has been multiplied by 30 to obtain number of channels (multiplier used in 2001 was 25).

3) Basic rate ISDN subscriber lines, which contain two independent data transmission channels, equal two conventional subscriber lines, while primary rate ISDN subscriber lines, formed of 30 data transmission channels, equal thirty conventional subscriber lines

Source: Telecommunications 2006, Statistics Finland

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Updated 5.6.2007