Finland's Domestic ICT Market.

ICT accounts for roughly 8.1% of Finland's total GDP. Of this, Hardware accounts for about 1.8%, software .6%, telecom 2.6 and other ICT services 3.1%. (48)

In the telecom sector, the market trend is of rapid growth in the wireless/cellular segment. By 1999, possession of a mobile phone for Finns between the ages of 15 and 74 stood at around 85%, with a peak of almost 100% for those falling into the 20-29 age range. Overall, this amounts to a figure of 76.9 mobile phones per 100 population. (28)

For computers, about 60 percent of Finnish homes have PCs. (5) On the business side, 95% of Finnish businesses with more than 5 employees used computers in their operations. This number rises to 100 for companies of over 100 employees. For these same companies, the use of an internal LAN was at 58% and 98%, respectively. (3) Finland has a total of approximately 2,200,000 PCs, for a total of 423.5 PCs per 1000 population.

Within society in general, Finland has amongst the highest number of computers per capita connected to the Internet in the world. Finland has a total of 2,235,300 Internet users, for a total of 430.3 users per 1000 population. (6). 84% of small and medium-sized (5-100 employees) businesses and 98% of large (100+ employees) grant use of the internet to employees..