Sweden Communications 2007

Telephones - main lines in use:
6.379 million (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
9.087 million (2005)

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 hosts:
3.318 million (2007)