Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.7 billion (1997)
Currency (code):
Swedish krona (SEK)
Currency code:
SEK
Exchange rates:
Swedish kronor per US dollar - 7.4731 (2005), 7.3489 (2004), 8.0863
(2003), 9.7371 (2002), 10.3291 (2001)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Sweden
Telephones - main lines in use:
6.447 million (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
8.436 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)