
Telecommunication in Finland
The development of telecommunications in Finland is roughly equivalent to the average of the European Union. Under the country code +358, there were a total of 7.35 million connections in 2020. Among them were 7.12 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 4.76 million webhosts, Finland is well above the world's average. At the end of 2020, 451,490 million of these, or about 9 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 92.73 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Finland ranked 34th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 38 Mbit/second was significantly lower (42nd place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 5th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Finland comes 15th with a download speed of 72.11 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 14 Mbit was only enough for 29th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in April 2022 from 181 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and Internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the Internet in Finland from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Finland 2000 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Finland Total | Finland percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Internet users | 5.10 m | 92.17 % | 379.21 m | 84.74 % |
Broadband users | 1.85 m | 33.38 % | 163.72 m | 36.59 % |
Landlines | 225,000.00 | 4.07 % | 160.15 m | 35.79 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.12 m | 128.76 % | 540.56 m | 120.80 % |