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Finns prefer mobiles

Finns talked more on mobiles than on landline phones in 2005 for the first time. According to Statistics Finland, mobile users spent 10.8m minutes talking on their handsets, up from 9.6m minutes in 2004. Landline calls fell by a third to 7.4m minutes. Finns also sent a record 2.4bn text messages, up from 2.2bn in 2004.