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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 14.09 million connections in 2020. Among them were 11.02 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 143.46 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Switzerland ranked 13th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 71.55 Mbit/second was significantly lower (24th place).
In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Switzerland comes 14th with a download speed of 82.91 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 20 Mbit was enough for 6th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in October 2022 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% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.

Access to the Internet in Switzerland from 1990 - 2020

Broadband internet in Switzerland 2000 - 2020

Symbol image: cell towerSwitzerland is doing very well in the expansion of broadband Internet connections. Around 94% of all residents have access to the Internet. Around 47% have their own fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the former ISDN (more than 256 kbit/s). All fixed connections via DSL, cable or satellite were counted here, but not those connected to the Internet via mobile communications.

Landlines 1990 - 2020

Mobile phones 1990 - 2020



Distribution in 2020Switzerland
Total		Switzerland
percent		USA
Total		USA
percent
Internet users8.14 m94.20 %301.33 m90.90 %
Broadband users4.03 m46.64 %121.18 m36.55 %
Landlines3.07 m35.56 %101.53 m30.63 %
Mobile cellulars11.02 m127.57 %351.48 m106.03 %

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