Cell phones, people neck-and-neck in Iceland

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

Believe it or not: There are only 40 fewer cell phones in use in Iceland then there are Icelanders.

A report from the Post and Telecom Administration in Iceland says there are 293,537 cell phones in use. According to Statistics Iceland, there were 293,577 Icelanders in Iceland on December 1, 2004.