(openPR) - Europe, one of the most advanced mobile communications markets in terms of technology deployment and services offered, has closed 2009 with more than a billion mobile telephony subscribers (SIM cards) according to Dataxis Intelligence last updates.

In fact, as the chart below shows it, the old continent, despite being a mature market with currently a penetration rate of 123% of the population- meaning virtually that every European has access to mobile telephony services- has been experiencing a steady mobile subscriptions growth in the last two years.

This resulted into a rise of subscriptions to mobile services of 12% between 2007-end and 2009 which represents in absolute terms 110 million new customers in the referred period. During 2009, Europe’s mobile market grew by 4%, thus registering about 35 million net additions, an appreciable performance in a serious economic downturn period.

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