
Telecommunication in Guinea
Compared to the United States, Guinea is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +224, there were a total of 13.80 million connections in 2021. Among them were 13.80 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.0 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 15 webhosts, Guinea is below the world's average by population.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 10.99 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Guinea ranks 148th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 9.6 Mbit/second (134th place).The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2023 from 180 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Guinea from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Guinea 2010 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2019
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
All international calling codes