
Telecommunication in Antigua and Barbuda
Compared to the United States, Antigua and Barbuda is at the forefront of the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +1809, there were a total of 211,000 connections in 2021. Among them were 184,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 2.0 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 11,532 webhosts, Antigua and Barbuda is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 122 of these, or about 1 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 27.30 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Antigua and Barbuda rank 115th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 14 Mbit/second (107th 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 in Antigua and Barbuda from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Antigua and Barbuda 2004 - 2020
