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Reliable and insightful news source, Fierce Telecom, (although not a good party thrower) recently reported that 24 percent of households in the EU dumped their fixed telephone lines for mobile, and 39 percent of homes in Eastern Europe who did not have to deal with growing pains and successive re-iterations of technology delivery vehicles, have gone mobile. Even my mom who lives in North America dropped her fixed line and now lives solely with her iPhone alone.
It’s odd that the big names aren’t rushing to former soviet bloc markets to get involved as they march out of the dark into the converged IPTV light - still people haggle over Tier 1 and keep trying to build a better machine to reach them, but meanwhile, the power of emerging markets and those countries who are dramatically changing their habits because of the nature of infrastructure and lifestyle will want companies that know their market and know what they are seeking - a road to content on any screen.
Their reporter, Jim O’Neil gave up some interesting factoids:
* Finland (61 percent) and Portugal (48 percent) have seen the highest flight from landline use
* Of European households with Internet connections, 22 percent use their PC for making phone calls. Latvia, Lithuania and Czech Republic lead in the category with more than 50 percent.
* Nearly half of all European households have access to the Internet, with most connected households accessing the Internet via an ADSL line.
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