Finland and Estonia were the only countries with over 1,6 mobile subscriptions per capita. In the other countries the number varied between 1,1 and 1,6 subscriptions per capita in 2021. While there are differences between the countries, it can be said that the total number of mobile subscriptions generally is stagnating.
The number of mobile voice and data subscription per capita increases every year in most of countries. The values of this indicator do not differ significantly between countries.
The number of mobile call minutes grew significantly in all countries in 2020 and 2021. This criterion highly reflected an effect of covid19 on the electronic communications sector.
Data traffic in mobile networks continued to increase in all of the countries. Finland had by far the largest data volumes, 55.9 Gbyte per capita and month, and traffic continued to grow fast. An important factor behind this development is the popularity of subscriptions without data caps in Finland. Volumes in the other countries ranged from 8.8 to 42.3 Gbyte per capita and month.
The number of machine-to-machine (M2M) SIM cards was growing in all of the countries. M2M SIM cards per capita is highest in Norway, followed by Sweden. The majority of all M2M SIM cards with Swedish and Icelandic numbers are used outside of the country.
