Number of Mobile Phones Rising Rapidly

Ljubljana, 14 July

The number of mobile phone users in Slovenia rose by 6% in 2007 to a total of 1.98 million, now accounting for 96% of the population in Slovenia, states the National Statistics Office in an electronic communication development survey for 2005-2007 published on Monday.

The duration of mobile phone calls rose at 7.4% annually on the average between 2005 and 2007, while that the fixed-line calls fell 6.4% annually in the same period. Most of the calls in 2007 were made from mobile phones, and only 36% were fixed-line calls, which is ten percentage points less than in 2005.
Ten percent of the fixed-line calls were directed to mobile phones, while only five percent of the calls from mobile phones were made to fixed lines.
According to the review, there were ten fixed-line communication providers at the end of 2007 and five mobile phone communication providers in Slovenia.
Revenues in electronic communications went up five per cent in 2007 and ten percent in 2006. Mobile phone calls make up for 42% of the total of the revenues from electronic communications.
The total outgoing calls in 2007 increased by one percent year-on-year. Domestic calls make up for 95% of the outgoing calls in the last three years and stand at 4.1-4.3 billion minutes annually, but the number of international calls is increasing.
The number of short text messages (SMS) sent from mobile phones has increased by 10.3% in 2007, which is the lowest increase since 2001, when the records were started.
The number of Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) phone lines dropped by seven percent, while the number of Internet Protocol (IP) phone lines has increased from 45,000 to 122,000 in 2007, and now accounts for 14% of the fixed lines.
IP telephony, offered by nine providers, caused the average revenues per user from fixed-line telephony to drop by EUR 22 in 2007, which is equal to the average rise of revenues per mobile phone user in 2006 and 2007.
The number of narrowband internet connections has been down by half each year since 2004. The number of private broadband internet connections increased substantially (by ten percentage points in 2007) compared to business broadband internet connections (up five percentage points).

Number of Mobile Phones Rising Rapidly

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