
Telecommunication in Honduras
Compared to the United States, Honduras is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +504, there were a total of 8.03 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.56 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.74 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 30,955 webhosts, Honduras is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 985 of these, or about 3 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 29.43 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Honduras ranks 107th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 7.4 Mbit/second was significantly lower (139th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Honduras comes 79th with a download speed of 24.06 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 11 Mbit was enough for 64th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in October 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 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Honduras from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Honduras 2010 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Honduras Total | Honduras percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 417,259.00 | 4.06 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 465,521.00 | 4.53 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.56 m | 73.56 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |