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Akureyri Húsavík

Keflavík Narvik
Reykjavík ICELAND
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Skellefteå
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Jyväskylä Petrozavodsk
Sundsvall

N O R W A Y Gulf of
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Shetland
Islands Bothnia Lappeenranta
Corvo
Corvo Atlantic Ocean Pori
Santa Cruz Lahti Vologda
Graciosa
Flores Santa Cruz Bergen
Terceira Orkney Gävle Cherepovets
Velas Islands Turku Vantaa Saint Petersburg
Faial Praia de Vitória Åland
Angra do Heroismo
São Espoo Kolpino
Horta Oslo Helsinki
Lajes Pico Jorge
do Pico Ribeira Hebrides Uppsala
São Miguel Grande Rybinsk Kostroma
Azores Västerås Cheboksary
Madeira Porto Ponta Stavanger Tallinn
Santo (Portugal) Delgada Örebro Novgorod Yaroslavl
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Stockholm Hiiumaa Ivanovo
Santa Maria ESTONIA
Vila do Porto Inverness
Funchal
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Aberdeen Saaremaa
North Sea Kristiansand Linköping Pskov
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Borås Gotland
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Castlebar Newcastle Upon Tyne Århus Daugavpils Serpukhov Penza
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Hälsingborg Siauliai
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Athlone Panevezys Vitsyebsk

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Mogilev Lipetsk
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Swansea Szczecin Baranovichi
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Cardiff Bremen Bydgoszcz

Oxford Ipswich
Haarlem Amsterdam Staryy Oskol
Bristol Leiden
Apeldoorn
Gorzów
Wielkopolski
Torun 50°
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Exeter London Rotterdam Utrecht Wolfsburg Berlin
Arnhem Poznan Plock Pinsk Chernigov
Plymouth
Southampton Dordrecht Breda NijmegenMünster Bielefeld Hildesheim Potsdam Warsaw Brest Sumy Belgorod
Portsmouth
Brugge Eindhoven Hamm Paderborn Salzgitter Magdeburg
Antwerp Essen Zielona Góra P O L A N D
Ghent Krefeld Dortmund Cottbus
Göttingen
English Channel Düsseldorf
Brussels Maastricht
Wuppertal
Solingen
Halle Kalisz Lodz
Radom
Kassel Leipzig Lublin Kharkov
Lille Cologne Legnica Kiev
GUERNSEY Liège Erfurt Dresden Wroclaw Lutsk
Charleroi Aachen Siegen Jena Gera
Saint Peter Port Bonn Rivne Poltava Lisicansk
Namur Chemnitz Czestochowa Kielce Zhyromyr
JERSEY Le Havre BELGIUM Koblenz G E R M A N Y Walbrzych Slavyansk
Amiens Zwickau Opole Stachanov
Saint Ústí nad Liberec Bila Tserkva Kramatorsk
Brest Caen Wiesbaden Frankfurt am Main Cherkasy
Helier Rouen LUX. Labem Gliwice Katowice Krasnyy
Atlantic Ocean Lanzarote Luxembourg
Mainz
Darmstadt
Offenbach
Prague Hradec Rybnik Tychy Kracow Rzeszow Horlivka Luch
Rheims Kralove L'viv U K R A I N E Kremenchuk
Kaiserslautern Mannheim Würzburg Wodzislaw Slaski Tarnow Khmelnitskiy Donetsk
Santa Cruz Paris Plzen CZECH Ostrava Dnepropetrovsk Novocherkassk
de la Palma San Cristóbal Arrecife Rennes Saarbrücken Fürth Erlangen Bielsko-biala Vinnitsya
Kirovohrad
de la Laguna Metz Heidelberg REPUBLIC Olomouc
Heilbronn Nürnberg Zaporozhye Taganrog Rostov-na-donu
Tenerife Las Palmas de Le Mans
La Palma Fuerteventura Karlsruhe Pforzheim Brno Zilina Ivano-Frankovs'k
Gran Canaria Regensberg Ceské Presov Krivoy Rog Mariupol'
Angers Orléans Strasbourg Stuttgart S L O VA K I A Kosice
Ingolstadt
Gomera MOROCCO Trencin
Nantes Tours Reutlingen Augsburg Banska Uzhhorod Berdyansk
Gran Canaria
Ulm Trnava Chernivtsi
Hierro
Freiburg Linz Nitra Beltsy
Canary Islands Mulhouse Vienna Miskolc Botosani
(Spain) WESTERN Dijon Basel Munich Bratislava Satu Mare Mykolayiv
Salzburg Nyíregyháza Suceava MOLDOVA
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SAHARA
F R A N C E Besançon Biel Zürich Györ Debrecen Baia Mare Iasi Tiraspol Kherson
Sea of Azof
Bay of Neuchâtel Lucerne LIECH. Innsbruck AUSTRIA Tatabánya
Budapest Chisinau
Piatra-neamt Krasnodar
Biscay Bern Vaduz
Graz Székesfehérvár Szolnok Oradea Odesa
Limoges SWITZERLAND Bacau Maykop
Lausanne Kecskemét Cluj-Napoca Kerch
Geneva St Moritz Klagenfurt H U N G A RY
Clermont-Ferrand Bolzano Tîrgu Mures
La Coruña Villeurbanne Maribor Yevpatoriya Novorossiysk
Lyon Lugano Szeged Arad
Trento
Udine SLOVENIA ROMANIA Focsani
Gijon Bordeaux Saint Etienne Bergamo Pécs
Monza Ljubljana Subotica Sibiu Brasov Galati
Oviedo Timisoara Sevastopol Sochi
Azores

Grenoble Novara Bréscia Vicenza

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Trieste Zagreb Buzau Braila

Santander Milan Mestre
Vigo Turin Verona Osijek
Orense Plaisance Padua Venice Rijeka C R O AT I A Novi Sad Rimnicu Vilcea
Bilbao Ploiesti
Leon Alessandria Parma Ferrara Pitesti
San Sebastián Emilia
Zemun Constanta
Toulouse
Nîmes Genoa
Módena Bologna Banja Luka Bucharest Black Sea
Vitoria Belgrade Craiova
Matosinhos Burgos Aix-en- Ravenna
Porto Montpellier La Spézia Forli BOSNIA AND
Pamplona Provence Nice Monte-Carlo Rímini Ruse
Vila Nova de Gaia Logroño Dobrich
40° Valladolid MONACO Pisa
Prato HERZEGOVINA SERBIA Razgrad
Marseilles Cannes SAN MARINO
Perpignan Florence Sarajevo Pleven
Andorra la Vella Livorno Ancona Split Shumen Varna
Coimbra Salamanca Toulon
ANDORRA Nis
Zaragoza Perúgia B U L G A R I A
Corsica Sliven Burgas
Lleida Samsun
S P A I N I T A L Y MONTENEGRO Sofia
PORTUGAL Terrasa Sabadell Pristina Stara Zagora
Madrid Terni Pescara KOSOVO Pernik
Getafe Zonguldak
Tarragona
Barcelona 16-19 February 2009 Podgorica Plovdiv 40°
Lisbon Barcelona, Spain Shkodër Skopje Edirne
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Rome Adriatic
Badajoz Istanbul Sivas
Sea MACEDONIA Adapazari
(FYROM) Izmit
Castellón de la Plana Latina Foggia Durrës
Bari Tirana Bitola Kirikkale
Menorca Sassari
Valencia Naples Thessalonika Ankara
Albacete Torre del Greco Bursa
Salerno ALBANIA Eskisehir
Palma
Lagos Albufeira
Huelva Córdoba Tyrrhenian Táranto
Lecce
Kayseri

Faro Seville Ibiza Majorca

Sardinia Sea Balikesir Kutahya T U R K E Y
Jaén
Elche
Alicante Lárisa
Murcia Cagliari Aegean Usak
Kahramanmaras
Jerez
Cádiz
Granada Cosenza Sea
Málaga Manisa Konya Gaziantep
Canary Islands Cartagena G R E E C E
Izmir Adana
& Madeira Tangier GIBRALTAR Almería Catanzaro Sparta Tarsus
(insets) Ceuta (Spain) Mediterranean Sea Denizli Mersin Halab
Iskenderun
Tétouan Palermo Messina Athens Aydin
Patra
Réggio di Calábria Antalya
Algiers
SYRIA
Melilla (Spain)
Annaba
Sicily
Catánia Ionian Al Lathqiyah
Rabat
M O R O C C O
Oran
Tunis Siracusa
Sea Hama
Casablanca A L G E R I A Hims
Fès TUNISIA Nicosia
Tripoli
Albania Bosnia & Herzegovina Denmark Gibraltar Ireland LEBANON
Dialling code: +355 Dialling code: +387 Dialling code: +45 Dialling code: +350 Dialling code: +353
Valletta
Crete Iraklion CYPRUS Beirut
Subscribers: 2.7m Subscribers: 2.6m Subscribers: 6.8m Subscribers: 23.9k Subscribers: 5.5m MALTA
Growth: 18% Growth: 13% Growth: 8% Growth: 5% Growth: 4% Damascus
Penetration: 83% Penetration: 62% Penetration: 125% Penetration: 100% Penetration: 131%

Andorra Bulgaria Estonia Greece Isle of Man Liechtenstein Malta Netherlands Romania Slovakia Switzerland
Dialling code: +376 Dialling code: +359 Dialling code: +372 Dialling code: +30 Dialling code: +44 Dialling code: +423 Dialling code: +356 Dialling code: +31 Dialling code: +40 Dialling code: +421 Dialling code: +41
Subscribers: 74.8k Subscribers: 10.9m Subscribers: 1.6m Subscribers: 18.5m Subscribers: 75.4k Subscribers: 37.0k Subscribers: 0.4m Subscribers: 19.6m Subscribers: 27.9m Subscribers: 5.8m Subscribers: 8.6m
Growth: 9% Growth: 9% Growth: 1% Growth: 14% Growth: 3% Growth: 4% Growth: 5% Growth: 8% Growth: 22% Growth: 1% Growth: 6%
Penetration: 104% Penetration: 147% Penetration: 124% Penetration: 174% Penetration: 99% Penetration: 95% Penetration: 97% Penetration: 118% Penetration: 127% Penetration: 109% Penetration: 116%

Austria Croatia Finland Guernsey Italy Lithuania Moldova Norway Russia Slovenia Turkey
Dialling code: +43 Dialling code: +385 Dialling code: +358 Dialling code: +44 Dialling code: +39 Dialling code: +370 Dialling code: +373 Dialling code: +47 Dialling code: +7 Dialling code: +386 Dialling code: +90
Subscribers: 10.1m Subscribers: 5.8m Subscribers: 7.3m Subscribers: 66.9k Subscribers: 91.9m Subscribers: 5.0m Subscribers: 2.0m Subscribers: 5.0m Subscribers:183.7m Subscribers: 2.0m Subscribers: 61.3m
Growth: 7% Growth: 15% Growth: 12% Growth: 6% Growth: 3% Growth: 10% Growth: 18% Growth: 4% Growth: 6% Growth: 11% Growth: 17%
Penetration: 123% Penetration: 131% Penetration: 139% Penetration: 102% Penetration: 157% Penetration: 148% Penetration: 48% Penetration: 106% Penetration: 132% Penetration: 102% Penetration: 81%

Belarus Cyprus France Hungary Jersey Luxembourg Monaco Poland San Marino Spain Ukraine
Dialling code: +375 Dialling code: +357 Dialling code: +33 Dialling code: +36 Dialling code: +44 Dialling code: +352 Dialling code: +377 Dialling code: +48 Dialling code: +378 Dialling code: +34 Dialling code: +380
Subscribers: 9.2m Subscribers: 1.0m Subscribers: 52.7m Subscribers: 11.3m Subscribers: 94.2k Subscribers: 0.7m Subscribers: 38.6k Subscribers: 41.1m Subscribers: – Subscribers: 52.9m Subscribers: 55.9m
Growth: 18% Growth: 4% Growth: 4% Growth: 7% Growth: 2% Growth: 2% Growth: 1% Growth: 5% Growth: – Growth: 5% Growth: 1%
Penetration: 95% Penetration: 127% Penetration: 86% Penetration: 114% Penetration: 103% Penetration: 141% Penetration: 118% Penetration: 115% Penetration: – Penetration: 128% Penetration: 123%

Belgium Czech Republic Germany Iceland Latvia Macedonia (FYROM) Montenegro Portugal Serbia Sweden United Kingdom
Dialling code: +32 Dialling code: +420 Dialling code: +49 Dialling code: +354 Dialling code: +371 Dialling code: +389 Dialling code: +382 Dialling code: +351 Dialling code: +381 Dialling code: +46 Dialling code: +44
Subscribers: 11.7m Subscribers: 13.5m Subscribers:108.9m Subscribers: 0.3m Subscribers: 2.3m Subscribers: 2.0m Subscribers: 1.4m Subscribers: 15.5m Subscribers: 11.1m Subscribers: 11.6m Subscribers: 75.6m
Growth: 9% Growth: 4% Growth: 12% Growth: 2% Growth: 6% Growth: 3% Growth: 27% Growth: 8% Growth: 20% Growth: 11% Growth: 3%
Penetration: 111% Penetration: 133% Penetration: 131% Penetration: 104% Penetration: 103% Penetration: 96% Penetration: 201% Penetration: 146% Penetration: 110% Penetration: 128% Penetration: 125%

GSM European Coverage 2009 Global technology market shares Global cellular subscribers Global subscriber growth rates
Over 940 million subscribers across 440 networks in 50 countries & regions iDEN: 0.5% PDC: 0.2%
EGYPT
For further information, contact the W-CDMA HSPA: 1.9%
W-CDMA: 6.7% 2000 L I B YA end 2008 80 Africa
GSM Association by e-mail at infolink@gsm.org,
telephone +44 20 7759 2300, fax +44 20 7759 2301 70 Americas
CDMA: North Middle East:
or visit www.gsmworld.com 10.3% America: Africa: 2% USA/Canada: 6% Asia Pacific
60
Percentage growth

18% Americas: 7% Europe: Eastern

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GSM Association. Visit www.coveragemaps.com for Marzuq 50 Europe: Western
Middle Africa: 9%
GSM coverage map products & services. East: Asia 40 Middle East
4% Asia Total Pacific: North America
The map is a compilation of coverage information provided Total
Pacific: Americas: 2.67bn 43% 30
by network operators world-wide and is based upon the most 640m 3,978m
31% 11%
up-to-date data known to the GSM Association and Europa 20
Technologies at the time of publication (January 2009).
Whilst all reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that 10
all such information is accurate, neither the GSM Association Europe Europe
or Europa Technologies accept any responsibility whatsoever Western: Europe Eastern: 11%
33% Eastern: Europe 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
for any errors or inaccuracies that may exist. Western: 13%
GSM: 4%
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