
Telecommunication in Switzerland
Compared to the United States, Switzerland is at the forefront of the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +41, there were a total of 14.02 million connections in 2021. Among them were 11.06 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 5.30 million webhosts, Switzerland is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 1.04 million of these, or about 20 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 156.84 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Switzerland ranks 14th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 77.38 Mbit/second was significantly lower (25th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Switzerland comes 20th with a download speed of 82.05 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 20 Mbit was enough for 9th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2023 from 180 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 Switzerland from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Switzerland 2000 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
All international calling codes
Distribution in 2021 | Switzerland Total | Switzerland percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 4.01 m | 46.04 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 2.96 m | 33.97 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 11.06 m | 127.08 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |