Telecommunication in Eritrea

Compared to the European Union, Eritrea is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +291, there were a total of 761,170 connections in 2019. Among them were 695,000 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.20 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.

In the expansion of broadband Internet connections, Eritrea is back. Around 1% of all residents have access to the Internet. Approximately 0% have their own fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the previous ISDN (more than 2048 kbit/s).

With about 701 webhosts, Eritrea is below the world's average by population.

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Development of telephone and internet connections

The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and Internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.

Access to the Internet in Eritrea from 1990 - 2019

Broadband internet in Eritrea 2008 - 2019

Landlines 1992 - 2019

Mobile phones 1990 - 2019

Spreading in 2019	Eritrea Total	Eritrea percent	EU Total	EU percent
Broadband users	1,000.00	0.03 %	157.90 m	35.28 %
Landlines	66,170.00	1.89 %	166.16 m	37.13 %
Mobile cellulars	695,000.00	19.87 %	547.36 m	122.31 %