SWISSCOM TURNOVER TO SEPTEMBER UP 4.6%.

The Swiss telecommunications operator Swisscom has announced a turnover of 7.656 billion Swiss Francs (USD5.5 billion) for the first nine months of 1998, a 4.6% increase on the corresponding period last year. The mobile telephony sector, in which Swisscom will continue to enjoy a monopoly until the end of the year, has shown the sharpest improvement with turnover up 30.5% to SF1.284 billion. Of a total Swiss population of 7.1 million, 1.471 million had subscribed to the mobile service by...