
Telecommunication in Paraguay
Compared to the United States, Paraguay has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +595, there were a total of 8.18 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.98 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.2 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 280,658 webhosts, Paraguay is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 3,391 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 68.93 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Paraguay ranks 57th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 26.14 Mbit/second was significantly lower (71st place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Paraguay comes 111st with a download speed of 17.45 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 8 Mbit was only enough for 118th 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 Paraguay from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Paraguay 2000 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Paraguay Total | Paraguay percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 702,255.00 | 10.48 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 203,971.00 | 3.04 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.98 m | 118.96 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |