The exact countries haven't been outlined, although it's easy to imagine Apple going for those countries where 4G speeds matter the most: there's been rumblings of talks with KT and SK Telecom in South Korea, but we could also see France, Germany, Japan and Scandinavian countries in the mix.
The resulting lack of competition may explain why no Scandinavian countries are in the top six for broadband penetration, despite having unusually high rates of Internet usage.
One thing they all have in common is that their income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, is well below that of the US. In fact, the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries that consistently score well on a variety of business and quality-of-life surveys have some of the lowest inequality scores among developed nations.
However, growth in the UK was not as high as in some Scandinavian countries and Central and Eastern Europe.
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In any event, rates of drug abuse in the U.S. tend to be higher than in Sweden or other Scandinavian countries, says Kendler.
The chemical industry has been developed here in recent years, and trade, generally with Scandinavian countries, has been boosted by the construction of the A180(M) link road.
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Coupled with a mistrust of the political elite, this has also led to a swell of support for the far right in Austria, Belgium and Scandinavian countries, Minkenberg said.
Now the Scandinavian countries are perhaps the most pacific in the world.
Though social democrats, who invented the Scandinavian model, are still in power in four Nordic countries (as part of a five-party coalition in Finland), their hold is tenuous.
In all four Scandinavian countries, banks are starting to use the Internet to tailor products and service directly for customers.
That softness was offset by stronger wholesale business in the northern countries including Germany and the United Kingdom, and the Scandinavian market.
"In Scandinavian countries, just one company will come and excavate the bore-hole, do the design, commissioning and plumbing - the whole thing, " he observed.
Criminal legal aid is also starved of support in many other countries, but some, such as Britain and the Scandinavian countries, can find the money to do the job well.
Scandinavian countries, which perennially rank among the least corrupt in the corruption index, had the fewest unpaid tickets.
Indeed, I think we could learn a lot not just about prisons from Scandinavian countries, but also on how to prevent crime in the first place by seriously combating poverty.
The Scandinavian countries also have long had high proportions of women in parliament, and they have some of the world's most supportive policies around motherhood, and some of the best outcomes for mothers and their children.
Scandinavian countries, and Switzerland, are now the safest places in Europe.
As in previous years the Arctic Sea is opening up on the Atlantic side, north of Scandinavian countries and Russia.
The United States is ahead of Japan when it comes to acknowledging the potential of female corporate and political leaders, but it pales in comparison to Scandinavian countries.
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Now to give more of a clue to how and when our economy will recover, McKinsey has looked at the experience of two Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Finland, which experienced credit and housing booms (rather like us) in the 1980s that turned into an economic and financial bust in 1990 (sound familiar).
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