
Telecommunication in Sweden
The development of telecommunications in Sweden is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +46, there were a total of 14.23 million connections in 2021. Among them were 12.84 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.2 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 5.98 million webhosts, Sweden is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 338,969 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 107.42 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Sweden ranks 26th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 94.76 Mbit/second (13th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Sweden comes 13th with a download speed of 89.84 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 15 Mbit was only enough for 22nd 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 Sweden from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Sweden 2000 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Sweden Total | Sweden percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 4.18 m | 40.09 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 1.38 m | 13.27 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 12.84 m | 123.31 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |