Finns top list of 32 countries in Internet use on phones, tablets
Finland's cheap subscription plans are proving a bane as parents mimic teenage kids in consuming online content
Helsinki
ON the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos.
A loud "Yeah!" breaks the quiet, along with a delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has just handed him her smartphone to calm him down with a video.
Finland, once a world leader in mobile telephony with Nokia, is in a class of its own when it comes to Internet usage on smartphones and tablets, thanks to cheap subscription plans.
In the first half of 2016, Finns used nearly…
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