
Telecommunication on the Seychelles
Compared to the United States, the Seychelles is at the forefront of the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +248, there were a total of 202,929 connections in 2021. Among them were 184,161 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.9 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 247 webhosts, the Seychelles is below the world's average by population.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 24.10 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, the Seychelles rank 124th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 19.46 Mbit/second (90th place).The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 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 on the Seychelles from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet on the Seychelles 2004 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Seychelles Total | Seychelles percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 41,280.00 | 41.59 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 18,768.00 | 18.91 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 184,161.00 | 185.54 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |