Telecommunication in the Bahamas
The development of telecommunications in the Bahamas is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +1-242, there were a total of 557,000 connections in 2021. Among them were 466,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 20,661 webhosts, Bahamas is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 496 of these, or about 2 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 43.58 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Bahamas rank 94th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 9.7 Mbit/second was significantly lower (130th 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 the Bahamas from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in the Bahamas 2001 - 2020
Bahamas is lagging behind in the expansion of broadband internet connections. Around 87 percent of all residents have access to the internet. Around 20 percent have their own fast internet connection, which is at least faster than the former ISDN (more than 256 kbit/s). All fixed connections via DSL, cable or satellite were counted here, but not those connected to the internet via mobile communications. 
Country comparison: Bahamas / United States of America
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