Mobile broadband booms in Sweden
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The percentage of Swedes having mobile broadband connections at home has increased sharply over the last two years, the statistics office said Monday. In 2008 every tenth person had access to mobile broadband in the home, while in 2010 more than every fourth person had access.
The most common form of Internet connection in Swedish homes is still via fixed broadband connection through the telephone network, DSL. However, DSL connections are decreasing and instead, connections via 3G or 4G as well as fixed connections via cable TV and fibre are increasing.
About half of Swedish individuals aged 16 − 74 have DSL as connection form to the Internet in the home. Roughly one fourth have connections via 3G/4G and nearly one third via other fast connections such as cable TV or fibre.
Since 2005 DSL has been the most common connection form in Swedish homes and the proportion was increasing steadily up until 2009. 2010 is the first year that the proportion with DSL connections is decreasing.
About 14 percent of those aged 16 − 74 always or nearly always make backup copies of private documents on external equipment or storage space on the Internet. Roughly 25 percent make backup copies sometimes. A somewhat higher percentage of men than of women make backup copies sometimes, nearly always or always. 44 percent never make backup copies on external equipment or storage space on the Internet. The percentage of women that never make backup copies is somewhat higher than the percentage of men.
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