
Telecommunication in Aruba
The development of telecommunications in Aruba is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +297, there were a total of 176,000 connections in 2021. Among them were 141,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 40,560 webhosts, Aruba is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 169 of these, or about 0 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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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 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.Access to the internet in Aruba from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Aruba 2003 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Aruba Total | Aruba percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 19,000.00 | 17.83 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Landlines | 35,000.00 | 32.85 % | 97.82 m | 29.47 % |
Mobile cellulars | 141,000.00 | 132.35 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |