Short facts about communications in Sweden

Telephones - main lines in use:

6.017 million (December 1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

3.835 million (October 1998)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  excellent domestic and international facilities; automatic system domestic:  coaxial and multiconductor cables carry most of the voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay systems carry 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)

Radios:

8.25 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

169 (plus 1,299 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

4.6 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.se

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

29 (2000)

Internet users:

4.5 million (2000)

Source: World Factbook