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According to the IDC/World Times Information Imperative Index, Sweden is Europe's leading
IT nation.  Telecommunication costs in Sweden are among the world's lowest. As a result of deregulation and elimination of monopolies, Sweden enjoys a competitive market with a number of alternative suppliers featuring most efficient technologies and services.
Sweden has progressed furthest among EU nations in deregulation of telecommunications. In most European nations, key sectors of telecommunications are still controlled by state monopolies.  Link to report on Sweden IT industry

Sweden has the highest number of main telephone lines in the world, per capita six of ten Swedes use computers.  And Sweden has one of the world's most liberal telecom markets

In 1993 Swedish Parliament passed its first telecommunications act.  The act allowed competition to enter the Swedish telecommunications markets.  Televerket the former monopoly became Telia AB, a 100% government owned limited company.

A 1996 estimate had about 13 million telephones or about 1.5 telephones per capita.   The telephone system has excellent domestic and international facilities.    Domestically, coaxial and multiconducter cable carry most voice traffic, parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional telephone channels.  

Internationally, there are 5 submarine coaxial cables and 3 satellite earth stations:

Sweden has an electrical capacity of 35.46 million kW, while producing 147.7 billion kWh.

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Swedish telecommunications companies