
Telecommunication in Norway
The development of telecommunications in Norway is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +47, there were a total of 6.17 million connections in 2021. Among them were 5.83 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 3.59 million webhosts, Norway is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 209,961 of these, or about 6 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 109.42 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Norway ranks 25th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 94.38 Mbit/second (15th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Norway comes 3rd with a download speed of 128.14 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 18 Mbit was only enough for 10th 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 Norway from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Norway 2000 - 2020
