Over 5 Million Mobile Phones in Lithuania

The Lithuanian telecoms regulator has published its quarterly update which has revealed that the country passed the 5 million mobile phone subscriber mark by the end of Q3 '08. The total at the end of last September reached 5.012 million - a one percent rise on the 4.96 million at the end of June 2008.

The country had an estimated population of 3.4 million at the end of 2007.

Over the same time frame, the number of landline subscribers dropped by 0.39 percent to 787,752 at the end of September 2008, while the number of internet subscribers grew by 6.9 percent to 671,976.

The total revenues for telecommunication services grew by almost 3 percent compared with the second quarter to LTL 798.1 million (US$1.59 billion) of which, LTL 344.95 million (US$686 million) was attributed to the mobile telecoms market.

Posted to the site on 5th January 2009