Sweden's Communications | Swedish Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 6,579,200 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 7.949 million (2002)

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: country code - 46; 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)

Television broadcast stations: 169 (plus 1,299 repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code: .se

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 5.125 million (2002)



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