{"id":2031,"date":"2009-03-26T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:44:34","slug":"eu-mobile-use-up-consumer-prices-down-europes-telecoms-sector-weathering-economic-downturn-says-commission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/eu-mobile-use-up-consumer-prices-down-europes-telecoms-sector-weathering-economic-downturn-says-commission-report\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: Mobile use up, consumer prices down: Europe&#8217;s telecoms sector weathering economic downturn, says Commission report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/information_society\/newsroom\/cf\/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=4784\">Europe&#8217;s Information Society<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>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&#8217;s Commission progress report on the single telecoms market. Despite the economic crisis, the EU&#8217;s telecoms sector (worth about 3% of EU GDP) continued to grow in 2008 with revenues estimated at above \u20ac300 billion, up 1.3% compared to 2007 and outperforming the rest of the economy (up by 1% only).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;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&#8217;s Commission progress report on the single telecoms market. Despite the economic crisis, the EU&#8217;s telecoms sector (worth about 3% of EU GDP) continued to grow in 2008 with revenues estimated at above \u20ac300 billion, up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-europe","category-mobile-phones","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-wL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}