¹. Similar growth and subscription rates are becoming the norm in other countries also. According to the International Telecommunications Union, in late 1995 there were over 55 million cellular telephone subscribers, as compared with 648 million wired telephone lines. Cellular subscriber penetration rates at year-end 1994 for a few representative countries were as follows: Sweden 14.7% , Norway 13.2% , Finland 12.8% , Denmark 9.8% , U.S. 8.8% , Singapore 8.7% , Iceland 8.3% , Hong Kong 7.7% , Kuwait 6.6% , Canada 6.5% .