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 mobile sector has seen innovative spectrum use, with extensive network upgrades and the world’s first development of LTE 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
  - 5.1.1 Fixed-line statistics
- 5.2 TeliaSonera
  - 5.2.1 Restructuring
  - 5.2.2 Functional separation of TeliaSonera
- 5.3 Tele2
- 5.4 Telenor Sweden
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 – 2009
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2008
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – June 2009
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – September 2009
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – June 2009
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – September 2009
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Installed ports / leased lines – 2004 - 2008
Table 9 – Data communications revenue by sector – 2004 - 2008
Table 10 – End-user revenue by service – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2009
Table 11 – End-user revenue growth: fixed line, Internet, mobile and mobile data – 1995 - 2009
Table 12 – End-user traffic in minutes by technology – 2001 - 2009
Table 13 – Telecom revenue per household by sector – 2001 - 2007
Table 14 – Telecom revenue growth per household by sector – 2001 - 2007
Table 15 – TeliaSonera wholesale lines, PSTN, LLU – 2005 - 2009
Table 16 – Interconnect minutes and revenue from fixed networks – 2001 - 2009
Table 17 – LLU, shared access price - connection and monthly rental – 2005 - 2008
Table 18 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2005 - 2008
Table 19 – Fixed numbers ported – 2004 - 2008
Table 20 – Carrier preselection customers, residential and business – 1999 - 2009
Table 21 – Wholesale Line Rental customers, households and business – 2006 - 2009
Table 22 – Market share of fixed-telephony subscribers by operator – 2006 - 2009
Table 23 – Fixed call services revenue – 2000 - 2009
Table 24 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: PSTN, ISDN – 2000 - 2009
Table 25 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: alternative access – 2002 - 2009
Table 26 – TeliaSonera subscribers (Sweden) – 2002 - 2009
Table 27 – TeliaSonera Group subscribers - 2005 - 2009
Table 28 – TeliaSonera fixed-line (broadband) financial data - Sweden – 2005 - 2009
Table 29 – TeliaSonera Group financial data – 2007 - 2009
Table 30 – Tele2 Sweden financial revenue by sector – 2006 - 2009
Table 31 – Tele2 Group financial overview – 2006 - 2009
Table 32 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2009
Table 33 – Telenor Sweden fixed-line subscribers – 2005 - 2009
Table 34 – Telenor Sweden fixed-line revenue – 2005 - 2009
Table 35 – Telenor Sweden revenue – 2008 - 2009
Table 36 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2009
Table 37 – ISDN channels – 2000 - 2009