Sweden - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and 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, 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.

Key developments:

Telecom revenue expected to show continued improvement in 2012 following slight growth in 2011; Sweden’s GDP expects 3.8% growth in 2011; TeliaSonera obliged to give competitors unbundled access to dark fibre local access networks; TeliaSonera commits to SEK8 billion FttP investment in Nordic and Baltic markets; government’s bid to sell stake in TeliaSonera defeated in Parliament; regulator’s market data for H1 2011, operator data to 2011; market developments to early 2012.

Companies covered in this report include:

Telenor, TeliaSonera, Tele2.

Table of Contents

• 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 – 2011 (e)
• Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2012 (e)
• Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2012 (e)
• Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2012 (e)
• Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 8 – End-user revenue by service – 2001 - 2012
• Table 9 – End-user revenue growth: fixed line, internet, mobile and mobile data – 1995 - 2011
• Table 10 – End-user traffic in minutes by technology – 2000 - 2011
• Table 11 – Telecom revenue per household by sector – 2001 - 2010
• Table 12 – Telecom revenue growth per household by sector – 2001 - 2010
• Table 13 – TeliaSonera wholesale lines, PSTN, LLU – 2005 - 2011
• Table 14 – Interconnect minutes and revenue from fixed networks – 2006 - 2010
• Table 15 – LLU, shared access price - connection and monthly rental – 2006 – 2009
• Table 16 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2005 - 2009
• Table 17 – Annual fixed number portings – 2002 - 2011
• Table 18 – Carrier preselection customers, residential and business – 1999 - 2011
• Table 19 – Wholesale Line Rental customers, households and business – 2005 - 2011
• Table 20 – Market share of fixed-telephony subscribers by operator – 2006 - 2011
• Table 21 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: PSTN, ISDN – 2000 - 2012
• Table 22 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: alternative IP access – 2005 - 2012
• Table 23 – TeliaSonera subscribers (Sweden) – 2002 - 2011
• Table 24 – TeliaSonera Group subscribers - 2005 - 2011
• Table 25 – TeliaSonera Group financial data – 2007 - 2011
• Table 26 – TeliaSonera Group financial data by sector – 2008 - 2011
• Table 27 – Tele2 Sweden revenue by sector – 2009 - 2011
• Table 28 – Tele2 Group financial overview – 2006 - 2011
• Table 29 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Table 30 – Telenor Sweden fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2005 - 2011
• Table 31 – Telenor Sweden financial data – 2008 - 2011
• Table 32 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2013

• Chart 1 – End-user revenue by service – 2001 – 2012
• Chart 2 – End-user traffic in minutes by technology – 2000 - 2011
• Chart 3 – TeliaSonera wholesale lines, PSTN, LLU – 2005 - 2011
• Chart 4 – Market share of fixed-telephony subscribers by operator – 2006 - 2011
• Chart 5 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: alternative IP access – 2005 - 2012
• Chart 6 – TeliaSonera subscribers (Sweden) – 2002 - 2011
• Chart 7 – TeliaSonera Group subscribers – 2005 - 2011
• Chart 8 - TeliaSonera Group financial data – 2007 - 2011
• Chart 9 – TeliaSonera Group financial data by sector – 2008 - 2011
• Chart 10 – Tele2 Sweden revenue by sector – 2009 - 2011
• Chart 11 - Tele2 Group financial overview – 2006 - 2011
• Chart 12 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Chart 13 – Telenor Sweden fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2004 - 2011
• Chart 14 – Telenor Sweden financial data – 2008 - 2011
• Chart 15 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2013

• Exhibit 1 – EU – The New Regulatory Framework (NRF)
• Exhibit 2 – Access and the local loop