The Internet in Sweden is used by 94.0% of the population, the fourth highest usage rate in the world, behind only the Falkland Islands (96.9%), Iceland (96.0%), and Norway 95%). Sweden is ranked 18th and 5th highest in the world in terms of percentage of fixed and wireless broadband subscriptions. It has the second fastest internet connection speed in the world.
Video Internet in Sweden
Usage
- Upper-level domain:.se
- Internet Host:
- 6.0 million hosts, 19 in the world (2012);
- 5.6 million hosts (2010).
- Internet users: 8.7 million users, 44th in the world; 94.0% of the population, fourth in the world (2012).
- Fixed broadband: 2.9 million subscriptions, 30th in the world; 32.2% of the population, 18 in the world (2012).
- Wireless broadband: 9.2 million subscriptions, 26 in the world; 101.3% of the population, 5 in the world (2012).
- IPv4: 30.4 million addresses allocated, 0.7% of the world total, 3336.4 addresses per 1000 people (2012).
- Internet service provider (ISP): 673 (2015).
Maps Internet in Sweden
Access technology
Domestic broadband internet access is mainly available through:
- An Internet cable with a speed of 128 kbit/s up to 10 Gbit/s,
- Fiber Optic with speed 100 Mbit/sec up to 10 Gbit/dt
- ADSL at 256 kbit/sec to 30 Mbit/s,
- VDSL at 256 kbit/sec to 60 Mbit/s, and
- Ethernet twisted-pair LANs connect via MAN fiber connecting buildings.
Com Hem is the largest cable Internet provider in Sweden.
Prices for LAN, fiber, and FTTH Ethernet services depend on the city where the service is used and the physical cable provider. Many cities have their own fiber network and allow ISPs to offer services on these facilities.
The cable market has seen huge investments, such as from Carlyle Group, a leading investment company that once held 21.6% of ISP Bredbandsbolaget. In July 2005 Bredbandsbolaget was purchased by Telenor ASA Norway. Bredbandsbolaget recently made a series of weaker acquisitions of competitors.
The wireless broadband market has also seen large foreign direct investment; such as Hutchison Whampoa's investment in Scandinavian 3G mobile operator 3.
Internet censorship and surveillance
In 2009 the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) found little or no evidence of screening in the four areas (political, social, conflict/security, and internet tools) they tested. There is no individual ONI country profile for Sweden, but is included in the regional outline for Nordic countries.
There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitors e-mail or Internet chat rooms without proper legal authority. Individuals and groups engage in expression of views over the Internet, including through e-mail.
The Constitution provides freedom of speech and the press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice. Independent press, effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combine to ensure freedom of speech and the press. The law criminalizes expressions that are considered hate speech and prohibit the threat or expression of contempt for group or group members based on race, color, nationality or ethnicity, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. Penalties for hate speech range from fines to a maximum of four years in prison.
The Constitution and law prohibit arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, and the government generally respects this prohibition in practice. The law allows the signal intelligence service, National Defense Radio Establishment, to monitor the content of all cross-border cable Internet traffic to combat "external threats" such as terrorism and organized crime. Monitoring is possible only after obtaining court permission and at the request of an explicit government or defense agency. In 2012, the parliament issued an EU EU Retention Directive that forced Internet service providers to store data on online communications within the country for six months so law enforcement agencies have access to it if the court orders.
The main Swedish Internet service provider has a DNS filter that blocks access to site authority claims that are known to provide child pornography, similar to a Danish filter. Some examples of block lists can be found on Finnish websites that criticize internet censorship. Swedish police are responsible for updating this blocked list of sites. On July 6, 2007, Swedish police said that there was material with child pornography available on related torrents from the torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and said TPB would be included in the list of blocked websites. However, this did not happen because the police later claimed that illegal material had been removed from the scene. Police never mention what illegal content is in the TPB. This comes with criticism and allegations that the intended censorship of The Pirate Bay is political.
On December 9, 2014, Pirate Bay (TPB) was raided at Nacka station, a nuclear-resistant data center built on a mountain complex near Stockholm. Despite the appearance of various TPB clones and reincarnation rumors, thepiratebay.se domain remains inaccessible. On December 13, 2014, Isohunt created a site called The Old Pirate Bay, which appears to be a revival of thepiratebay. On December 21, 2014 after nearly two weeks of downtime, The Pirate Bay's official domain showed signs of life. ThePirateBay.se only raises the pirate flag, but that's enough to give many Pirate Bay users hoping for a full recovery. The primary domains of Pirate Bay begin to point to a new IP address that is connected to a server hosted in Moldova.
See also
- Internet History in Sweden
- Television license in Sweden
- Telecommunications in Sweden
- Swedish media
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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