Telecommunication in Sweden

The development of telecommunications in Sweden is roughly equivalent to the average of the European Union. Under the country code +46, there were a total of 14.58 million connections in 2020. Among them were 12.96 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.

The expansion of the broadband Internet in Sweden is roughly equal to the EU average. Around 95% of all residents have access to the Internet. Approximately 40% have their own fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the previous ISDN (more than 2048 kbit/s).

With about 5.98 million webhosts, Sweden is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 338,969 million of these, or about 6 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.


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