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There were 9.26 million mobile plans in Finland in 2019 (against a population of 5.5 million), and of those 70% had both calls and data features, 7% only calls
by Hamuko 6y ago
There were 9.26 million mobile plans in Finland in 2019 (against a population of 5.5 million), and of those 70% had both calls and data features, 7% only calls and 23% only data. So if those 23% data-only plans are the home connections, that'd be roughly two million home connections.
Of course, it's probably not that clear cut. There are probably people who have a fixed line and then just have a mobile 4G hotspot when they go to the cabin. Impossible to tell really.
Data from https://www.ficom.fi/ict-ala/tilastot/matkapuhelinliittym%C3%A4t-ja-verkot https://www.ficom.fi/ict-ala/tilastot/matkapuhelinliittym%C3...
- ttkari 6y agoI guess a significant share of those data only plans are used in different kinds of m2m and iot devices. Of course, the availability of unlimited subscriptions surely is a big factor in popularity of home use of mobile connections in Finland. In places where mobile typically has a data quota, people probably are less likely to use a mobile connection instead of DSL.
- Hamuko 6y agoThe source says that M2M plans are not counted in the total number of plans.
- ksec 6y agoThe only Data I find from BBC [1] , knowing the Finland is one of the best connected country from other source, along with Wiki [2] having 1.8M of Fixed-broadband subscriptions. I think 23% plans are home connection would be a gross over estimate. But then we have comment above with 300GB of Mobile Data per month. I just checked my router log, I was barely doing 300GB per month, inclusive of all the iCloud Backup, Youtube, etc.... 300GB Mobile Data is absolutely insane. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/10461048 https://www.bbc.com/news/10461048 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_subscriptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...