The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority strives to ensure that everyone in Sweden shall have access to

good telephone, broadband and postal services.

Swedish Post and Telecom Authority

The Swedish Post and

Telecom Authority

Patrik Bystedt,

Head of Secure Communications Department

Welcome to the 27th ENISA Article 13a Expert Group meeting in Stockholm!

PTS in brief

• Founded in 1992

• Approx. 300 employees• 80 % university graduates – principally

legal experts, economists and engineers

• Financing, approx. SEK 700 million• By direct charges approx. SEK 304 million

• Appropriations from the national budget for

security measures and services for people

with disability, approx. SEK 395 million

PTS is guided by the following

• The EU controls the work in Sweden

through:• Directives and regulations

• The Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament)

and Government control PTS through:• Laws and Ordinances

• Terms of Reference and Instructions

• PTS is an authority reporting to the

Ministry of Infrastructure

PTS’s roles

Regulation

• We regulate according to EU-regulation and Swedish law

Supervision

• We supervise that the providers comply with the regulations

Promotion

• We inform, support and influence, for example in regard to: • services for people with disabilities

• measures to increase robust networks

• broadband financing i rural areas

Organisation

The Swedish Electronic Communications Sector - Parallel networks and many stakeholders

• Approx. 760 infrastructure owners

• 230 commercial owners (city owned networks and

national infrastructure owners)

• 530 fibre associations

• Approx. 640 companies are providing publicly available

electronic communication networks or services on the

Swedish telecom market • Big variation of providers

• Dependencies between providers - collaborators and

competitors

• Parallel infrastructures provide network redundancy

Some facts about the Swedish Telecom Market

• The mobile subscriptions for both calls and data, often used by

smartphones, increased (by 3 %).• In total 14,2 million mobile subscriptions (-2%)

• of which voice & data: 10, 6 million (+3%)

• of which only data: 1,7 million (-15%)

• Of which only voice: 1,9 million (-14%)

• Consumer use of mobile data continues to increase -> + 30 % a year• The data traffic on mobile networks increased to 493 Pbyte

• The private subscriptions stand for the increase on mobile traffic data, generated

on average 6.4 Gbyte per subscriptions and month (an increase of 52 %).

Some facts about the Swedish Telecom Market

• Mobile calls via 4G networks (VoLTE) increases • 20 % of all mobile phone calls

• There were 3.9 million fixed broadband subscriptions - an

increase of 4 %. • The number of subscriptions via fibre increased by 15 % to 2.5 million.

• Fibre and fibre LAN accounted for most of the fixed broadband growth

and constituted more than half (62 percent) of all fixed broadband

subscriptions.

Fixed telephony

• Number of subscriptions on fixed telephony decreased to

2,4 million (-15%)

Secure Communications Department

Patrik Bystedt,

Head of Department

Robust

Communications

(SK1)

Ove Landberg

Readiness (SK2)

Rita Hammarstedt

Digital and Trust

Services (SK3)

Staffan Lindmark

Protective Security,

Internal

Information

Security (SK5)

Henrik Christiansson

Secure

Communications

Services (SK4)

Anna Montelius

Current topics of interest

• EECC -> National law

• Reviewing of secondary legislation

• NIS – digital infrastructure and digital services• Establishing our operations, Secondary legislation and supervision

• Total defence planning

• Protective Security - New law in to force as of 1 April

• National strategy on information and cyber security – Joint action

plan presented yesterday (7 different authorities)

Tack och välkomna!