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To: S100 who wrote (13379)	7/5/2001 1:50:10 AM
From: S100	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

SURVEY - FINLAND: High-tech haven braced for the slowdown: A strong economy, backed by strict fiscal discipline should see Finland through current difficulties. Financial Times; Jul 5, 2001 Finland has become the land of the mobile phone as much as the sauna. Some 60 per cent of Finnish school children aged between 9 and 12 have a handset. More than one in three of the mobile phones sold in the world are made by a Finnish company. Mobile phones have displaced forestry as Finland's biggest industry. snip snip It was also starkly at odds with the findings of a recent survey which suggested that Finland was the least corrupt country in the world. globalarchive.ft.com

To: S100 who wrote (13379)	7/5/2001 4:54:41 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

Finns, at least, will adopt the new technology regardless. Can't FT stop whining?? regardless of gadgets like faxes, internet and mobile phones. (note that I actually specify "regardless of what??" as my essay teacher pointed out) --- In the 1970s Finns were the first people in Europe using fax machines. In the early 1980s Finnish universities were wired to their counterparts in California using early forms of the internet. By the late 1990s, Finland had the highest level of internet and mobile phone use as a percentage of population in the world. While a national predilection for gadgetry plays a part in Finland's emergence .... The precedent set by the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology is not a happy one.. At least our WAP works, this vacation month sees millions of finns sitting at water side granite rocks in the archepelago, by the lake in the forest, checking the weather forecast, paying bills, learning about the marconi disaster, using WAP. And no broken antennas nor cracked, hinged lids. If they get lost no need to whine and cry for mom, regardless, just send a simple SMS messages to get the location, regardless. Ilmarinen This is the wapping summer, next one will be even more.