Communications In Sweden

Telephones

• main lines in use: 6,579,200 (2002)
• mobile cellular: 7.949 million (2002)
• general assessment: excellent domestic and international facilities; automatic system

• domestic: coaxial and multiconductor cable carry most voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional telephone channels
• international: 5 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Sweden shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway)

Radio

• broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 265, shortwave 1 (1998)
• radio sets: 8.25 million (1997)

Television

• broadcast stations: 169 (plus 1,299 repeaters) (1995)
• television sets: 4.6 million (1997)

Internet

• internet service providers (ISPs): 29 (2000)
• internet users: 5.125 million (2002)

See also

• Culture of Sweden
• List of Swedish newspapers
• List of Swedish television channels
• List of Swedish companies
• List of Swedes

• Telia Sonera
• Sveriges Television
• Government agencies in Sweden

References

• CIA World Factbook 2001

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