
Telecommunication in Finland
The development of telecommunications in Finland is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +358, there were a total of 7.36 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.15 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 4.76 million webhosts, Finland is well above the world's average. At the end of 2020, 451,490 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 94.53 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Finland ranks 33rd in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 42.92 Mbit/second was significantly lower (44th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Finland comes 15th with a download speed of 85.69 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 14 Mbit was only enough for 28th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 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 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Finland from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Finland 2000 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
All international calling codes
Distribution in 2021 | Finland Total | Finland percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 1.86 m | 33.64 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 207,000.00 | 3.74 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.15 m | 129.04 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |