Sweden - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd, September 2012, Pages: 27

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 expands interest in Kazakhstan, 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 2011; telcos’ operating and financial data to June 2012; market developments to late 2012.

Companies covered in this report include:
Telenor, TeliaSonera, Tele2.

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 – 2012 (e)
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2012 (e)
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2012 (e)
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2012 (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 - 2011
Table 12 – Telecom revenue growth per household by sector – 2001 - 2011
Table 13 – TeliaSonera wholesale lines, PSTN, LLU – 2005 - 2012
Table 14 – Interconnect minutes and revenue from fixed networks – 2006 - 2011
Table 15 – Annual fixed number portings – 2002 - 2012
Table 16 – Carrier preselection customers, residential and business – 1999 - 2011
Table 17 – Wholesale Line Rental customers, households and business – 2005 - 2011
Table 18 – Market share of fixed-telephony subscribers by operator – 2006 - 2011
Table 19 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: PSTN, ISDN – 2000 - 2012
Table 20 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: alternative IP access – 2005 - 2012
Table 21 – TeliaSonera subscribers (Sweden) – 2002 - 2012
Table 22 – TeliaSonera Group subscribers - 2005 - 2012
Table 23 – TeliaSonera Group financial data – 2007 - 2012
Table 24 – TeliaSonera Group financial data by sector – 2008 - 2012
Table 25 – Tele2 Sweden revenue by sector – 2007 - 2012
Table 26 – Tele2 Group financial overview – 2006 - 2012
Table 27 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2012
Table 28 – Bredbandsbolaget (Telenor) subscribers by sector – 2004 - 2011
Table 29 –Telenor telephony, internet, TV subscribers – 2010 - 2012
Table 30 – Telenor Sweden fixed-line revenue – 2005 - 2012
Table 31 – Telenor Sweden financial data – 2008 - 2012
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 – Telecom revenue per household by sector – 2001 – 2011
Chart 4 – TeliaSonera wholesale lines, PSTN, LLU – 2005 - 2011
Chart 5 – Market share of fixed-telephony subscribers by operator – 2006 - 2011
Chart 6 – Fixed telephony subscriptions: alternative IP access – 2005 - 2012
Chart 7 – TeliaSonera subscribers (Sweden) – 2002 - 2012
Chart 8 – TeliaSonera Group subscribers – 2005 - 2012
Chart 9 - TeliaSonera Group financial data – 2007 - 2012
Chart 10 – TeliaSonera Group financial data by sector – 2008 - 2012
Chart 11 – Tele2 Sweden revenue by sector – 2007 - 2012
Chart 12 - Tele2 Group financial overview – 2006 - 2012
Chart 13 – Tele2 Sweden subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2012
Chart 14 –Telenor subscribers by sector – 2004 - 2011
Chart 15 –Telenor telephony, internet, TV subscribers – 2010 – 2012
Chart 16 – Telenor Sweden financial data – 2008 - 2012
Chart 17 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2003 - 2013
Exhibit 1 – EU – The New Regulatory Framework (NRF)
Exhibit 2 – Access and the local loop

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