The ratio of people using mobile telephones in Slovakia increased by 4.6 percentage points in 2005 from the year before to 84.1 percent.
As of December 31, in a country of 5.4 million people, the two Slovak mobile phone operators, T-Mobile and Orange Slovensko, registered a total of 4.5 million customers, the SME daily wrote.
Orange Slovensko Director Pavol Lančarič said his company had 2.5 million customers at the end of last year.
Compiled by Martina Jurinová from press reports
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