20071128 BBC: Europeans hang up on fixed lines

BBC: Europeans hang up on fixed lines

November 28,2007

I’ve considered giving up my land line phone for quite some time – and just have not quite been able to let go… I’m curious as to what other folks are doing?

Almost a fifth of European households use a mobile as their only phone, reveals research.

Lithuania heads the nations who have turned against landlines with 48% of households replacing a fixed phone with a mobile. Finland was second with 47%.

The figures from Eurostat, the EC's in-house statistical office, show how mobile phones have become essential to everyday European life.

It reports there are now 95 mobile phones for every 100 Europeans.

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