Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 12:47:34 AM Cell phone subscribers change operators frequently FTimes-STT Report, July 27  Photo - Lehtikuva. The number of cell-phone subscribers has increased significantly in the country during the recent period, according to the intelligence report of GSMA.
The report said that the total number of mobile phone subscribers reached to 9.7 million in Finland, which is almost double of the total population of the country.
The total number of population of Finland stood at 5.4 million at the end of June 2013, according to the Statistics Finland.
The Finnish people frequently change their mobile phone operators, which could be a reason behind the higher number of total mobile phone subscribers, said the GSMA report.
A woman writing a text message. Photo - Lehtikuva. Most of the Finnish people use regular subscription based post-paid connections while only 10 percent of the total mobile phone subscribers have pre-paid connections.
The report also said that about half of the total people in world use one or more than one cell phone connections.
The overall mobile phone users reached to about 6,6 billion in the world where the number of individual subscribers was more than 3.2 billion, said the report, adding that the number of individual subscribers of cell-phone expected to be four billion by the year 2017.
It also said that the total number of subscribers will reach to 10 billion all over the world by the year 2017 as the mobile phone market is being expanded gradually.
Sim card in Helsinki on 24 July 2013. Photo - Lehtikuva. The report also said that development of generation of phones prompted the subscribers to change mobile operators frequently.
Cell-phone market researcher Gartner said that the mobile phone market would grow by 4.3 percent at the end of this year.
He estimated that sales of mobile phone would be 1821 million in 2013 and the figure would be 1902 million in 2014.
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