Telephones - mobile cellular:2003 figures state that 93% of households own at least one mobile phone
Telephone system: modern system with excellent service domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and an extensive cellular net take provide of domestic needs international: 1 submarine cable; satellite earth stations - access to Intelsat transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Finland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 186, shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations: 130 (plus 385 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions: 3.3 million (1999); in 2003 42% of households had either cable-television access or satellite television, 94% had a television and 20% a widescreen television
Finland was the first country in the world to initiate the application process for licences for telecommunication with this third generation mobile technology, which is based on the network technology standard UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).
In Finland, during the first half of the 1990s, extensive studies were carried out with the aim of creating a national information strategy and in 1995 several studies aimed at the development of the information society were published.
Finland - towards an information society, A National Outline (December 1994), the final report submitted by the TIKAS steering committee appointed by the Ministry of Finance, was more general in content, examining the prospects of the information society within a broader context.
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
Finland's nearly 700-year association with the Kingdom of Sweden is traditionally connected with the year 1154 and the alleged introduction of Christianity by Sweden's King Erik.
The climate in Southern Finland is a northern temperate climate.
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