The consumer price index of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) measures price development based on a basket of goods and services that includes the most important consumer goods of private households. The results published by the FSO make it possible to understand the evolution of prices for detailed aggregates, and in particular for those concerning telecommunication services.
Thus, the item "telecommunication services" (item 8014) which is in group 8 ("communications") aggregates the following three sub-items :
- fixed network communications (item 8042),
- communication on mobile network (item 8018)
- and combined offers on fixed and mobile networks (item 8045).
The following table presents the three sub-indexes and its aggregate. We can see that between 2021 and 2022, the prices of communication services on fixed networks increased by 1.6 %, those of communications on mobile networks increased by 1.3 %, while those of bundled offers have decreased by -2.2 %. These trends have lowered the overall price of telecommunication services by -0.7 %.
| Years | Telecommunication services | Fixed-line communication | Mobile communication | Combined offers for fixed-line and mobile communication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 232.1 | |||
| 1995 | 238.9 | |||
| 1996 | 227.9 | |||
| 1997 | 217.7 | |||
| 1998 | 201.0 | |||
| 1999 | 183.7 | |||
| 2000 | 145.9 | |||
| 2001 | 140.0 | |||
| 2002 | 140.1 | |||
| 2003 | 139.7 | |||
| 2004 | 138.5 | |||
| 2005 | 130.5 | |||
| 2006 | 120.9 | 111.4 | 132.5 | |
| 2007 | 117.4 | 109.3 | 127.0 | |
| 2008 | 114.2 | 104.5 | 125.7 | |
| 2009 | 108.5 | 103.6 | 114.3 | |
| 2010 | 106.9 | 104.4 | 109.7 | |
| 2011 | 107.3 | 103.8 | 110.9 | 105.3 |
| 2012 | 107.1 | 102.9 | 111.2 | 104.7 |
| 2013 | 104.7 | 103.2 | 106.7 | 103.5 |
| 2014 | 102.5 | 103.0 | 103.0 | 103.8 |
| 2015 | 102.0 | 102.6 | 102.3 | 102.7 |
| 2016 | 100.5 | 100.7 | 100.1 | 100.3 |
| 2017 | 98.7 | 99.3 | 97.2 | 99.8 |
| 2018 | 98.9 | 99.1 | 96.2 | 101.2 |
| 2019 | 99.9 | 100.0 | 96.7 | 102.8 |
| 2020 | 100.2 | 100.0 | 99.4 | 100.9 |
| 2021 | 99.7 | 102.9 | 99.5 | 99.7 |
| 2022 | 99.0 | 104.5 | 100.8 | 97.5 |
| Source: Federal Statistical Office, Swiss Consumer Price Index, https://www.bfs.admin.ch/ |
Last modification 09.02.2022
