
Mobile communications and Internet in Denmark
The development of telecommunications in Denmark is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +45, there were a total of 8.08 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.36 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 4.30 million webhosts, Denmark is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 1.62 million of these, or about 38 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Internet speed for cell phones and fixed network
With an average download speed of 199.94 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Denmark ranks 8th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 108.37 Mbit/second (11th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Denmark comes 6th with a download speed of 118.83 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 19 Mbit was only enough for 10th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in April 2023 from 180 countries.
Mobile phone rates in Denmark
Every year, the International Telecommunication Union calculates for many countries what a mobile phone contract costs to use. A monthly budget averaging US$ 25.60 was calculated Denmark in 2021. This is about the same value as in the previous year.The ITU refers to the costs for monthly use and includes 140 telephony minutes, 70 text messages and a data transfer of 2 GBytes. The transfer speed should be the minimum of a 3G connection, i.e. at least UMTS, which is already outdated in many parts of the world. 2 GBytes do not sound much. However, this is already quite a high consumption in a worldwide comparison. If one does not take a fixed amount in US dollars, but converts it to the economic output per inhabitant, a user in Denmark spends 0.49% of his gross national income on mobile telephony. Worldwide, this rate is around 6.6 percent.
In the USA, the monthly cost was around $38.10.
Network coverage with 5G
In 2020, network coverage with the 5G standard was already 98 percent of all inhabitants. The proportion of the population with at least 4G mobile Internet access was 100.0 percent. The 4G network standard includes both LTE and WiMAX.The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Denmark from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Denmark 2000 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
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Distribution in 2021 | Denmark Total | Denmark percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Internet users | 5.79 m | 98.87 % | 304.52 m | 91.75 % |
Broadband users | 2.61 m | 44.63 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Landlines | 714,807.00 | 12.20 % | 97.82 m | 29.47 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.36 m | 125.73 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |