
Telecommunication in Guyana
Compared to the European Union, Guyana is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +592, there were a total of 981,000 connections in 2020. Among them were 856,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 24,936 webhosts, Guyana is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 48 million of these, or about 0 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 34.36 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Guyana ranked 93rd in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 16.12 Mbit/second was significantly lower (88th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 44th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Guyana comes th with a download speed of 0 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 0 Mbit was enough for th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2022 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% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the Internet in Guyana from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Guyana 2005 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Guyana Total | Guyana percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Broadband users | 95,000.00 | 12.08 % | 163.72 m | 36.56 % |
Landlines | 125,000.00 | 15.89 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 856,000.00 | 108.83 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |