
Telecommunication in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Compared to the United States, Saint Kitts and Nevis is at the forefront of the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +1809, there were a total of 93,000 connections in 2021. Among them were 78,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.6 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 54 webhosts, Saint Kitts and Nevis is below the world's average by population.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 42.93 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 94th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 10.85 Mbit/second was significantly lower (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 Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Saint Kitts and Nevis 2002 - 2020
