Sweden - Key Statistics, Telecom Market & Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Sweden’s telecom market is characterised by high mobile and broadband penetration, even by European standards. The country was also the first in Europe to complete the switch to digital TV broadcasting,. The 3G sector is advanced, with extensive network upgrades and Europe’s first development of 21Mb/s mobile broadband capability. This report introduces the key aspects of the Swedish telecom market in 2009, providing data on fixed network services and profiling the main players. It also assesses the functional separation of the incumbent TeliaSonera. In addition, the report overviews the key regulatory issues, including interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability, carrier preselection and NGN open access.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Overview of Sweden’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 History
- 4.2 Regulatory authority
  - 4.2.1 National Post and Telecom Agency
- 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Sweden
  - 4.3.1 Privatisation of Telia
  - 4.3.2 Interconnect
  - 4.3.3 Access
  - 4.3.4 Number portability (NP)
  - 4.3.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
  - 4.3.6 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
5. Fixed network operators in Sweden
- 5.1 Overview of operators
- 5.2 TeliaSonera
  - 5.2.1 Restructuring
  - 5.2.2 Functional separation of TeliaSonera
- 5.3 Tele2
- 5.4 Glocalnet (Telenor)
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
- 6.2 International infrastructure
  - 6.2.1 Submarine cable networks
  - 6.2.2 Satellite networks
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics – 2008
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2007
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – June 2008
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – June 2008
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – June 2008
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – June 2008
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Data communications revenue and annual change – 2004 - 2007
Table 9 – Installed ports / leased lines – 2003 - 2007
Table 10 – Data communications revenue by sector – 2003 - 2007
Table 11 – IP-VPN revenue – 2000; 2004 - 2007
Table 12 – End-user revenue by service – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2007
Table 13 – End-user revenue growth: fixed line, Internet, mobile and mobile data – 1995 - 2007
Table 14 – End-user traffic by technology – 2001 - 2007
Table 15 – Telecom revenue per household by sector – 2001 - 2007
Table 16 – Telecom revenue growth per household by sector – 2001 - 2007
Table 17 – TeliaSonera wholesale lines, PSTN, LLU – 2005 - 2008
Table 18 – Interconnect minutes and revenue in fixed networks – 2001 - 2006
Table 19 – LLU, shared access price - connection and monthly rental – 2004 - 2007
Table 20 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2004 - 2008
Table 21 – Fixed numbers ported – 2004 - 2007
Table 22 – Carrier preselection customers, residential and business – 1999 - 2008
Table 23 – Wholesale Line Rental customers, households and business – 2006 - 2008
Table 24 – Fixed call services revenue – 2000 - 2007
Table 25 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: PSTN, ISDN – 2000 - 2008
Table 26 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: alternative access – 2002 - 2007
Table 27 – TeliaSonera subscribers (Sweden) – 2002 - 2008
Table 28 – TeliaSonera Group subscribers - 2005 - 2008
Table 29 – TeliaSonera fixed-line (broadband) financial data - Sweden – 2005 - 2008
Table 30 – TeliaSonera Group financial data – 2006 - 2008
Table 31 – Tele2 Sweden financial data – 2006 - 2008
Table 32 – Tele2 Group financial data – 2006 - 2008
Table 33 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers – 2006 - 2008
Table 34 – Glocalnet fixed-line subscribers (Sweden) – 2005 - 2008
Table 35 – Glocalnet fixed-line revenue (Sweden) – 2005 - 2008
Table 36 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2007
Table 37 – ISDN channels – 2000 - 2007