Norway - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Norway was 348,808 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,775,000 in 1997 and a minimum value of 348,808 in 2020.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 454,900
1961 454,900
1962 454,900
1963 454,900
1964 454,900
1965 582,600
1966 582,600
1967 582,600
1968 582,600
1969 582,600
1970 742,300
1971 742,300
1972 742,300
1973 742,300
1974 742,300
1975 913,900
1976 955,900
1977 1,004,500
1978 1,054,400
1979 1,114,200
1980 1,197,287
1981 1,297,653
1982 1,425,512
1983 1,554,194
1984 1,657,403
1985 1,757,656
1986 1,861,412
1987 1,948,680
1988 2,016,213
1989 2,070,249
1990 2,132,290
1991 2,198,243
1992 2,268,486
1993 2,334,836
1994 2,394,000
1995 2,444,000
1996 2,484,000
1997 2,775,000
1998 2,475,000
1999 2,446,000
2000 2,401,000
2001 2,337,856
2002 2,316,919
2003 2,236,113
2004 2,180,429
2005 2,108,628
2006 2,055,057
2007 1,988,166
2008 1,899,519
2009 1,770,923
2010 1,647,400
2011 1,522,207
2012 1,396,016
2013 1,236,698
2014 1,080,869
2015 944,510
2016 807,163
2017 686,718
2018 565,316
2019 444,600
2020 348,808

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Norway was 6.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.78 in 1997 and a minimum value of 6.43 in 2020.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 12.70
1961 12.70
1962 12.70
1963 12.70
1964 12.70
1965 15.64
1966 15.64
1967 15.64
1968 15.64
1969 15.64
1970 19.15
1971 19.15
1972 19.15
1973 19.15
1974 19.15
1975 22.80
1976 23.73
1977 24.84
1978 25.98
1979 27.36
1980 29.30
1981 31.66
1982 34.67
1983 37.68
1984 40.05
1985 42.32
1986 44.65
1987 46.54
1988 47.94
1989 48.99
1990 50.20
1991 51.49
1992 52.85
1993 54.09
1994 55.14
1995 55.97
1996 56.54
1997 62.78
1998 55.65
1999 54.67
2000 53.36
2001 51.69
2002 50.97
2003 48.93
2004 47.42
2005 45.52
2006 43.98
2007 42.13
2008 39.81
2009 36.69
2010 33.72
2011 30.76
2012 27.84
2013 24.35
2014 21.02
2015 18.16
2016 15.37
2017 12.97
2018 10.59
2019 8.27
2020 6.43

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications