Telenor Norway reports 111k FWA subs in Dec 2025, a number that is the same as in the beginning of 2022 (or 15k down from peak). The total number of fixed broadband subs (incl. FWA) is in decline as a growth in fibre subs can't compensate for losses in cable and FWA. FWA now 16% of total base.

Telenet mag de term 'fiber' niet zomaar gebruiken bij reclame vrtnws.be/p.JNnZLoKJw

In most APAC markets, smartphones are more often on Wi-Fi than on mobile (but, somewhat ironically, FWA drives the share on Wi-Fi) insights.opensignal.com/2026/02/03/o...

China had close to 13 million base stations in December 2025 - of which 38% 5G. The number of 5G base stations continues to grow, but the overall total grew slower than previously.

Breaking: Lyse Tele (ice Norge) and Telia Norway to share mobile network across Norway, a first for the country. news.cision.com/telia-compan...

Elisa had a tough Q4, losing 27k mobile subs in Finland - similar to Telia. Elisa states that it earns 3 EUR more on customers upgrading to 5G, but Elisa's figures show that 24% of customers with a 5G smartphone haven't chosen a 5G subscription. Q4 23 was better, 21%. elisa.com/corporate/in...

Latvian operator LMT reports "rekordrezultati" - and refers to LMT's position in Tefficient's global operator report on average mobile data usage lmt.lmt.lv/preses-reliz...

Tele2 Sweden suddenly finds 14k low-ASPU mobile postpaid B2C subscriptions previously uncounted to take the total B2C+B2B blended mobile net loss in Q4 to just -14k. '3' Sweden had +50k. Tele2's financials strong though, helped by layoffs. www.tele2.com/investors/re...

Following Sweden's 2G/3G shutdown and 112/VoLTE issues, PTS reports that 8k phones were blocked 1 December 2025 and that 45k additional phones will be blocked on Monday 2 February 2026. pts.se/nyheter-och-...

[email protected] added 50k mobile subs in Q4 (net) with an annual service revenue growth of 8% - likely again best-in-class in Sweden. 3 Denmark added 31k subs (net) with an annual service revenue growth of 8% - likely best-in-class in Denmark. www.investorab.com/investors-me...

Turbo Live from AT&T "coming soon" - to begin with at 11 stadiums. Interesting is that it is supposedly available also to (paying) 5G customers of Verizon and T-Mobile. How does that work?🤔

Finnish operator DNA decommissioned its last copper-based telephone line today. And it was the CEO that did it. www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7175...

3 first with 5G standalone in Sweden, but as no new service or tier is presented, it looks like just a technology introduction www.mynewsdesk.com/se/tre/press... @3sverige.bsky.social

Telia also wins the new reliability category

Telia wins the umlaut test in Sweden. Also this year. Telia has commissioned the test from umlaut. www.accenture.com/content/dam/...

Mobile and fixed broadband ARPUs are generally improving in the Nordics & Baltics. Lithuanian & Latvian operators lead in their ability to improve ARPU; Estonia does well too. In the Nordics, Norway & Denmark have the best development, followed by Finland. Sweden features the weakest development.

Tele2 created a fuzz among Swedish mobile providers in October 2025 when it started to manually contact customers who had requested a port-out to ask for an confirmation, thereby not following the industry agreement. Regulator PTS examined this, concluding in December that it wasn't illegal.

Telia Finland starts negotiations to reduce its headcount with about 200 (net) from today's 3000. www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7171...

Norway: Regulator Nkom dangled a carrot saying that fibre networks could avoid SMP regulation if voluntarily opening up. Three - Tussa IKT, Tafjord Connect & NEAS (each with a 1% revenue market share) - decided not to open their networks and will hence be SMP regulated. nkom.no/aktuelt/bred...

More network sharing coming to Italy where Swisscom (Vodafone+Fastweb) intends to share mobile network (RAN) with TIM for what seems to be the 60% of population not living in the most densely populated areas. Deal not final and requires regulatory approval. www.swisscom.ch/en/about/new...

Who has the best 5G networks in the Nordics? Opensignal: - 3 Denmark has the fastest 5G download, @3sverige.bsky.social the slowest. - Norlys & Telenor Denmark have the highest 5G reliability, ice the lowest. - TDC NET wins on 5G coverage, 3 Sweden last. insights.opensignal.com/2025/12/5g-n...

Germany: Based on the communicated (preliminary obviously) mobile data traffic volumes for 2025, it seems as if both Telekom and Vodafone closed in on O2 in 2025.

Telia's historical mobile quality leadership is now seriously challenged by Telenor and Tele2 who win the most categories in Sweden insights.opensignal.com/reports/2025...

There's been significant growth in the absolute mobile data traffic growth [in TB] in the latest reported three months in South Korea - post the data breach scandals.

Denmark's Fiberalliancen made a cute drawing showing where the Danish public support for broadband went in 2025. But it will be halved in 2026. Accompanied by the laconic statement "not quite at Swedish level". app.bwz.se/greenpowerde...

Negotiations over: 357 @elisaoyj.bsky.social employees to lose their jobs - of which 347 based in Finland. Slightly lower than the 400 indicated before negotiations. elisa.com/corporate/ne... Elisa was probably the last Nordic operator that initiated a downsizing program, nobody is immune it seems.

We updated our latest mobile data usage and revenue analysis again - for the fifth time. There's news on Australia and Greece. tefficient.com/arpu-growth-... We won't update this analysis further. When stats for the full year of 2025 are in, we will be back with a new analysis. Merry Christmas!

MVNOs have a tiny market share in Finland & Sweden but hold ~10% of the mobile subs base in Norway & Denmark. The share would likely be less if we count $: That level of detail is available for Norway (6%) & Sweden (4%). Data: Nkom, @digitaliseringsstyrelsen.dk, PTS, @traficomfinland.bsky.social

An exciting day for us as Bundesnetzagentur surprises us reporting its first half 2025 figures for Germany, breaking the annual rhythm. We of course updated our latest mobile data usage and revenue analysis with it. New data also for Austria, Bahrain, Canada. tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

FTTH/FTTB homes activated is very low in Germany: 24% in June 2025. The map from @bnetza.bsky.social seemingly shows how fibre enters into Germany from the north. data.bundesnetzagentur.de/Bundesnetzag...

This is breaking ir.netflix.net/investor-new...

Mobile Europe's @simondux.bsky.social combined streaming stats from T-Mobile Poland with Tefficient's FWA usage and take-up stats into a story on how streaming dominates mobile data usage and why FWA will dominate mobile network traffic. www.mobileeurope.co.uk/t-mobile-pol...

🇨🇭 Switzerland is a true outlier in mobile data monetisation with high usage *and* high revenue. Newly reported Swiss 2024 stats added to Tefficient's 1H 2025 report: tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

Over to Sweden

There's not yet any "Fibre Road" in Denmark although that infrastructure is today as key as e.g. electricity and telephony that have plenty of named roads named in Denmark. fiberalliancen.dk/nyheder/danm...

Finland: GlobalConnect continues its journey to become a pure wholesale provider by selling most of its consumer retail fibre customers (10k) to Telia. Telia is already active as an ISP on top of GlobalConnect's fibre. www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7162...

En Allemagne, le régulateur perd son recours devant une cour administrative fédérale sur la vente aux enchères en 2019 de licences 5G : la chambre qui a fixé les règles en son sein n’a pas agi de manière suffisamment indépendante de toute influence politique. À retenir. www.heise.de/news/5G-Aukt...

Italian telcos are now colour labelling 5G and fixed broadband based on definitions by regulator AGCOM - here some examples: Highest 5G speed and availability is labelled green - and fibre is also labelled green

Age has an impact on the mobile data usage, DNA research shows corporate.dna.fi/press-releas...

Merry Christmas to all - but the 46% of countries that ended up to the left where ARPU fell although mobile data usage typically grew tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

Tefficient's 46th analysis of mobile data usage and revenue "ARPU growth softens further as mobile data usage growth slows in half of the countries" is now available for download. tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

5G represented 27.7% of the total mobile data traffic of the UK in July 2025, reports @ofcom.bsky.social. 5G sites grew by 26% y-o-y. Interesting new stat: Nearly one third of the traffic was 5G standalone in July 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b...

The 1800 MHz frequency auction in Sweden ends on its first day. 25 MHz to Net4Mobility (Tele2/Telenor) for 466 MSEK and 10 MHz to Telia for 186 MSEK. 3 Sweden participated too, but didn't get any frequencies. pts.se/nyheter-och-...

Sweden: Telia was the MNO with the lowest share of traffic on 5G in the first half of 2025 after leadership in 2H 2023. Telenor leading, but its network mate Tele2 has a much lower share. '3' second highest.

Putting all Nordic mobile providers into one chart - for mobile consumer satisfaction - shows just how low the satisfaction is with the Swedish main brands. Situation worsened in 2025. But Sweden is also winning - with Vimla and Fello. Data from EPSI/Svenskt kvalitetsindex.

After failed 4th MNO entry, government pressure on prices, and severe security breaches, South Korean 5G usage reaches a new high in August with 33.4 GB per 5G subscription. Never ever has the total mobile data traffic grown faster YoY than it did in August.

We wonder how this new metric, "FTTH % of base" is defined by Telekom/DT, because based on DT's own reporting, FTTH should only be 11.7% of fixed broadband retail base. If we apply your reported FTTH net adds to the base reported in Q1 2024 (1091k), it sums up to 1761k. 16.1% would mean 2431k.

[email protected] consolidates IoT operations into Telenor Connexion, using the "Telenor IoT" brand. But not quite: "The Nordic business units ... will continue providing IoT connectivity and 5G private network services for their key segments." www.telenor.com/media/newsro...

Stockholmers now have the fastest median mobile download among the Nordic cities listed by Ookla. Stockholm is city #11 globally.

With 5G outdoor coverage rollout soon completed and fibre rollout slowing, Nordic operators have passed peak CAPEX to revenue