2019 Sweden - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Last updated: 23 Apr 2020 Update History

Report Status: Archived

Report Pages: 172

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Table Of Contents

Publication Overview

This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Sweden’s telecommunications market. The report analyses the fixed-line, mobile and broadband sectors. Subjects include:

Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
Facts, figures and statistics;
Industry and regulatory issues;
Infrastructure developments;
Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
Mobile Voice and Data Markets;
Broadband (FttP, DSL, cable, wireless);
Mobile subscribers and ARPU;
Broadband market forecasts;
Government policies affecting the telecoms industry;
Market liberalisation and industry issues;
Telecoms operators – privatisation, IPOs, acquisitions, new licences;
Mobile technologies (GSM; 3G, HSPA, LTE, 5G).

Researcher:- Henry Lancaster

Current publication date:- November 2016 (14th Edition)

Researcher:- Henry Lancaster
Current publication date:- September 2019 (17th Edition)

Executive Summary

Sweden looking ahead to 2020 spectrum auction for 5G

Sweden’s telecom market includes mature mobile and broadband sectors which have been stimulated by the progressive investment of the main telcos in developing new technologies. The country retains one of the best developed LTE infrastructures in the region, while its network operators will be well positioned to expand services based on 5G once additional spectrum is made available to them in early 2020.

The country also has one of the highest fibre broadband penetration rates in Europe and is aiming to provide a 1Gb/s broadband service to 98% of the population by 2025. The methodology to achieve this rests on regulatory measures supported by public funds, as well as on the auction of spectrum.

Most mobile subscribers make use of mobile broadband, which in many cases is a viable alternative to fixed-line broadband services. Given the capabilities of 5G technologies, mobile broadband is likely to be the main platform for many Swedes, particularly in rural areas. This is supported by market competition, which has driven down access pricing.

In the fixed-line broadband segment, the number of DSL subscribers is falling steadily as customers continue to migrate to fibre networks. There is also competition from HFC infrastructure, with the main cableco Com Hem, now owned by Tele2, offering fibre-based broadband and investing in services based on the DOCSIS3.1 standard.

Considerable investment in mobile networks has also made mobile broadband a fast-growing sector, with LTE-based services available in most rural areas not covered by fixed-line infrastructure, and with 5G to be integral to the overall broadband platform in coming years.

This report assesses key aspects of the Swedish telecom market, providing data on fixed network services and profiling the main players. It also reviews the key regulatory issues, including interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability, carrier preselection and NGN open access. The report also analyses the mobile market, providing data on network operators and their strategies in a highly competitive environment. In addition, the report considers the fixed and fixed-wireless broadband markets, including analyses of market dynamics and the main operators, as well as providing subscriber forecasts.

BuddeComm notes that the outbreak of the Coronavirus in 2020 is having a significant impact on production and supply chains globally. During the coming year the telecoms sector to various degrees is likely to experience a downturn in mobile device production, while it may also be difficult for network operators to manage workflows when maintaining and upgrading existing infrastructure. Overall progress towards 5G may be postponed or slowed down in some countries.

On the consumer side, spending on telecoms services and devices is under pressure from the financial effect of large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes. However, the crucial nature of telecom services, both for general communication as well as a tool for home-working, will offset such pressures. In many markets the net effect should be a steady though reduced increased in subscriber growth.

Although it is challenging to predict and interpret the long-term impacts of the crisis as it develops, these have been acknowledged in the industry forecasts contained in this report.

The report also covers the responses of the telecom operators as well as government agencies and regulators as they react to the crisis to ensure that citizens can continue to make optimum use of telecom services. This can be reflected in subsidy schemes and the promotion of tele-health and tele-education, among other solutions.

Key developments:

Telecom sector revenue showed slight decline in 2018;
Tele2 sells out of Kazakhstan and Croatia;
Swedish Parliament asks government to consider selling the state’s 37.3% interest in Telia;
Fixed-line telephony penetration continues downward slide;
Ice Group sells its LTE provider Netett Sverige;
Regulator to auction 3.4-3.8GHz licenses in March 2020;
Tele2 and Telia to phase out 3G services by 2025;
Telia trials 5G providing up to 900Mb/s;
Tele2 and Com Hem merger completed;
Government promotes new broadband strategy to 2025;
Telia completes G.fast field trials to deliver 1Gb/s services;
Com Hem launches a 1.2Gb/s fibre service;
Telia commits to SEK5 billion investment to connect up to one million households with FttP
Report update includes the regulator’s market data to December 2018, telcos’ operating and financial data to Q2 2019, assessment of the global impact of COVID-19 on the telecoms sector, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Telenor Sweden, Telia Company, Tele2, Hi3G Sweden, Net1, Com Hem, PiteEnergi, BAS

Key statistics
Country overview
COVID-19 and its impact on the telecom sector

Economic considerations and responses
Mobile devices
Subscribers
Infrastructure

Telecommunications market

Market analysis

Regulatory environment

Historical overview
Regulatory authority
Telecom sector liberalisation
Privatisation
Interconnect
Access

Bitstream access
Fibre access

Number Portability (NP)
Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)

Fixed network operators

Introduction
Telia Company
Tele2
Telenor Sweden

Telecommunications infrastructure

Overview of the national telecom network
VoIP
International infrastructure

Submarine cable networks
Satellite networks

Smart infrastructure

Broadband market

Introduction and statistical overview

Market analysis
Government support
Broadband strategy – 2010
Broadband strategy – 2020
Broadband strategy – 2025
Regulatory measures
Competition
Municipal action
Broadband statistics

Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks

Com Hem

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks

Open access
ADSL2+
VDSL2+

Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks

Introduction
Telia
Telenor
PiteEnergi
BAS
Other developments

Other fixed broadband services

Broadband Powerline (BPL)
Fixed wireless (Wi-Fi and WiMAX)

Digital economy

eGovernment
eHealth

Mobile communications

Market analysis
Mobile statistics

General statistics

Mobile infrastructure

Analogue
5G
4G (LTE)
3G
Other infrastructure developments
M2M
NB-IoT

Mobile voice
Mobile data

Short Message Service (SMS)
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

Mobile broadband
Regulatory issues

Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions
Roaming
Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
Network sharing

Major mobile operators

Telia Mobile
Tele2 Mobile
Telenor Mobile
Net4Mobility
Hutchison 3G Sweden
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
Mobile Virtual Network Enablers (MVNEs)

Mobile content and applications

Location-based services
Mobile music
Other developments
M-payments

Appendix – Historic data
Glossary of abbreviations
Related reports

List of Tables

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Sweden – 2019 (e)
Table 2 – Interconnect fixed-line minutes and revenue – 2006 – 2018
Table 3 – Telia VoIP subscribers – 2007 – 2019
Table 4 – International internet bandwidth – 2009 – 2016
Table 5 – Broadband penetration by technology – 2006 – 2018
Table 6 – Telia fixed-line broadband revenue and ARPU (Sweden) – 2012 – 2019
Table 7 – Tele2 broadband financial data (Sweden) – 2008 – 2018
Table 8 – 3.7GHz licence results – 2009
Table 9 – Historic - Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 – 2009
Table 10 – Historic - End-user revenue growth: fixed line, internet, mobile and mobile data – 1995 – 2009
Table 11 – Telecom revenue per household by sector – 2001 – 2009
Table 12 – VoIP subscribers and annual change – 2004 – 2009
Table 13 – End-user traffic in minutes by technology – 2000 – 2009
Table 14 – Telecom revenue per household by sector – 2001 – 2009
Table 15 – Telecom revenue per household annual change by sector – 2001 – 2009
Table 16 – Internet services revenue – 2003 – 2014
Table 17 – Historic - Internet users and penetration rate – 1996 – 2015
Table 18 – Internet subscribers: PSTN, ISDN – 2000 – 2009
Table 19 – Internet monthly revenue by household and subscriber - 2000 – 2009
Table 20 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1995; 1997; 1999 – 2009
Table 21 – Mobile data services traffic – 2002 – 2009
Table 22 – Historic – Mobile voice and data revenue – 1995; 1997; 1999 – 2009
Table 23 – Average mobile traffic per subscriber – 2001 – 2009
Table 24 – Mobile traffic in minutes and sector traffic use – 2001 – 2009
Table 25 – Mobile traffic in minutes and sector traffic use – 2001 – 2008
Table 26 – Active prepaid and contract subscribers – 2000- 2009
Table 27 – Historic - GSM/UMTS and NMT subscribers (regulator data) – 1999 – 2011
Table 28 – Historic - Market share of subscribers by operator (regulator data) – 1995 – 2009

List of Charts

Chart 1 – End-user revenue by service – 2009 – 2018
Chart 2 – Telecom sector revenue and annual change – 2009 – 2018
Chart 3 – End-user revenue annual change by sector – 2010 – 2018
Chart 4 – Change in end-user traffic in minutes by technology – 2009 – 2018
Chart 5 – Change in telecom revenue per household by sector – 2009 – 2018
Chart 6 – Annual change in telecom revenue per household by sector – 2009 – 2018
Chart 7 – Change in the number of fixed number portings – 2002 – 2019
Chart 8 – Change in the number of carrier preselection customers – 2009 – 2019
Chart 9 – Change in the number of Wholesale Line Rental lines – 2005 – 2018
Chart 10 – Change in the number of Telia subscribers (Sweden) – 2009 – 2019
Chart 11 – Telia Group financial data – 2007 – 2019
Chart 12 – Tele2 Sweden revenue by sector – 2007 – 2019
Chart 13 – Tele2 Group financial overview – 2006 – 2018
Chart 14 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers by sector – 2006 – 2019
Chart 15 –. Development of Telenor’s telephony, internet, TV subscriber base – 2010 – 2019
Chart 16 – Change in Telenor Sweden’s fixed-line revenue – 2005 – 2019
Chart 17 – Change in Telenor Sweden’s financial data – 2008 – 2019
Chart 18 – Decline in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2009 – 2024
Chart 19 – Decline in the number of PSTN lines – 2009 – 2018
Chart 20 – Market share of fixed-telephony subscribers by operator – 2009 – 2018
Chart 21 – Change in the number of VoIP subscribers – 2009 – 2018
Chart 22 – Decline in VoIP revenue – 2009 – 2018
Chart 23 – Decline in VoIP traffic – 2006 – 2018
Chart 24 – VoIP accesses by technology – 2004 – 2017
Chart 25 – Telia VoIP accesses – 2007 – 2019
Chart 26 – Growth in broadband services revenue – 2009 – 2018
Chart 27 – Broadband revenue by platform – 2011 – 2018
Chart 28 – Low-end fixed broadband accesses by speed – 2009 – 2018
Chart 29 – High-end fixed broadband accesses by speed – 2012 – 2018
Chart 30 – Change in fixed broadband market share of subscribers by operator – 2009 – 2018
Chart 31 – Proportion of all internet subscribers by type – 2009 - 2019
Chart 32 – Proportion of fixed/mobile internet subscribers – 2009 – 2018
Chart 33 – Steady rise in internet revenue by household and subscriber - 2009 – 2018
Chart 34 – Growth in the number of internet subscribers (including mobile) – 2009 – 2018
Chart 35 – Decline in the number of dial-up internet connections – 2009 – 2018
Chart 36 – Change in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers by access type – 2009 – 2018
Chart 37 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2024
Chart 38 – Change in the number of Telia broadband subscribers – 2005 – 2019
Chart 39 – Change in the number of Tele2’s broadband subscribers – 2008 – 2019
Chart 40 – Change in the number of Telenor broadband subscribers – 2008 – 2019
Chart 41 – Growth in the number of mobile subscribers, and penetration – 2009 – 2024
Chart 42 – Change in the number of GSM, UMTS and LTE subscribers – 2012 – 2018
Chart 43 – Change in subscriber distribution by technology – 2009 – 2018
Chart 44 – Growth in mobile voice and data revenue – 2010 – 2018
Chart 45 – Growth in mobile traffic in minutes and sector traffic use – 2009 – 2018
Chart 46 – Growth in average mobile traffic per subscriber – 2009 – 2018
Chart 47 – Average mobile blended ARPU – 2011 – 2018
Chart 48 – Market share of subscribers by operator – 2010 – 2018
Chart 49 – Active prepaid and contract subscribers – 2009 - 2017
Chart 50 – Growth in the number of LTE subscriptions – 2010 – 2018
Chart 51 – Growth in mobile data traffic from LTE networks – 2015 – 2018
Chart 52 – Growth in the number of M2M connections – 2008 – 2018
Chart 53 – Growth in M2M revenue – 2008 – 2018
Chart 54 – Monthly SMS volumes per user – 2009 – 2018
Chart 55 – Growth in SMS traffic, by platform – 2010 – 2018
Chart 56 – Growth in the number of MMS messages sent – 2009 – 2018
Chart 57 – Growth in the number of MMS messages sent per subscriber – 2006 – 2018
Chart 58 – Growth in mobile data services traffic – 2009 – 2018
Chart 59 – Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscribers by type – 2006 – 2018
Chart 60 – Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2024
Chart 61 – Annual mobile numbers ported – 2009 – 2019
Chart 62 – Change in mobile termination revenue traffic and revenue – 2009 – 2018
Chart 63 – Telia Mobile subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2009 – 2019
Chart 64 – Telia Mobile blended, contract and prepaid ARPU – 2009 – 2019
Chart 65 – Telia Mobile mobile revenue – 2007 – 2019
Chart 66 – Growth in the number of Tele2 mobile subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Chart 67 – Tele2 Mobile (Sweden) financial data – 2009 – 2019
Chart 68 – Telenor Mobile financial data – 2009 – 2019
Chart 69 – Growth in the number of Telenor Mobile subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Chart 70 – Decline in Telenor’s blended mobile ARPU (Sweden) – 2006 – 2019
Chart 71 – Change in the number of Hi3G registered subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Chart 72 – Hi3G revenue (Sweden) –2010 – 2019
Chart 73 – Hi3G annualised net ARPU – 2008 – 2019

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1 – Access and the local loop
Exhibit 2 – UMTS licence awards in Sweden – 2000
Exhibit 3 – 700MHz auction result – 2018
Exhibit 4 – 800MHz licence awards in Sweden – 2011
Exhibit 5 – 1800MHz licence awards in Sweden – Oct 2011
Exhibit 6 – 2.6GHz licence awards in Sweden – May 2008
Exhibit 7 – Hi3G spectrum concessions –2018
Exhibit 8 – Select MVNOs and host networks

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2019 Sweden - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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Sweden looking ahead to 2020 spectrum auction for 5G

Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report:

Key statistics

Country overview

COVID-19 and its impact on the telecom sector

Telecommunications market

Regulatory environment

Fixed network operators

Telecommunications infrastructure

Broadband market

Digital economy

Mobile communications

Appendix – Historic data

Glossary of abbreviations

Related reports

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