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The number of 3G users in Europe has just crept past the 100 million mark - no doubt helped by the sudden penchant for mobile broadband.

Informa Telecoms and Media says that at the end of May there were 101.5 million 3G subscriptions, although that's still a minuscule proportion of the total 910.8 million European mobiles (although a significant number of these may be attributed to the several pre-pay GSM bricks lurking at the back of our office filing cabinet).

Top of the 3G league was Sweden, followed by Norway and Italy who each had well over 25% subscriptions given over to 3G. With Portugal, Austria and Spain occupying the rest of the top six, it seems the UK may have some catching up to do.

[Reuters]