Finns Continue to Buy Mobile Phones

The Finnish government has announced that 85% of the Finnish population now own a mobile phone, up from 78% last year. "We just seem to be mobile-phone crazy,'' Mikael Akermarck from the Ministry of Transport and Communications said on Friday. "Our estimates so far have been correct, but now we don't know how far it will go.""

Posted to the site on 10th July 2000