EU: Mobile use up, consumer prices down: Europe’s telecoms sector weathering economic downturn, says Commission report

EU: Mobile use up, consumer prices down: Europe’s telecoms sector weathering economic downturn, says Commission report

Europe’s Information Society:

Europe leads the world in mobile phone services with the number of subscriptions in 2008 at 119% of the EU population (up 7 percentage points from 2007), well ahead of the US (87%) and Japan (84%). This is a finding of today’s Commission progress report on the single telecoms market. Despite the economic crisis, the EU’s telecoms sector (worth about 3% of EU GDP) continued to grow in 2008 with revenues estimated at above €300 billion, up 1.3% compared to 2007 and outperforming the rest of the economy (up by 1% only).

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