The Swedish Telecommunications Market 2007
18/06/2008
The retail market for electronic communications in Sweden, measured in total revenues for call services, Internet services and data communications services, increased by 2 per cent during 2007, and had a total turnover of SEK 50bn during 2007.
The market value for fixed call services amounted to SEK 18.2bn, which is nearly 1.5 billion less than during the corresponding period in 2006. For the first time, the total revenues from services in mobile networks exceed the total revenues from fixed call services. The turnover for mobile call services, including SMS, increased by 11 per cent to SEK 18.7bn during 2007. The revenues from MMS and data traffic in mobile networks together totalled over one billion SEK. The number of traffic minutes in UMTS networks amounted to more than 18 per cent of the total number of outgoing traffic minutes in mobile networks.
There were 5 506 000 fixed telephone subscriptions in Sweden on 31 December 2007. The number of PSTN telephone subscriptions continued to decrease, and at the same time the number of subscriptions for IP-based telephony increased by 52 per cent to 623 000 subscriptions. The number of pre select customers decreased by 325 000 during 2007.
The number of active customers with broadband access increased from 2 489 000 to 3 131 000 between 31 December 2006 and the corresponding point in time 2007, which corresponds to a growth of approximately 26 per cent. Wired broadband accounted for 56 per cent of the growth and wireless broadband (mobile Internet) accounted for 44 per cent. Dial-up connections continued to decrease at a fast pace.
78 households in 100 had some kind of Internet access on 31 December 2007, compared to 74 households in 100 at the corresponding date the year before. The total share of households with broadband access in Sweden increased from 51 to 62 household of 100 during 2007.
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