
Telecommunication in Bangladesh
Compared to the United States, Bangladesh is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +880, there were a total of 181.61 million connections in 2021. Among them were 181.02 million 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 71,164 webhosts, Bangladesh is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 23,085 of these, or about 32 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 35.25 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Bangladesh ranks 104th in an international comparison. The upload rate was 37.15 Mbit/second (51st place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Bangladesh comes 121st with a download speed of 14.34 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 9 Mbit was enough for 103rd 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 Bangladesh from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Bangladesh 2007 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Bangladesh Total | Bangladesh percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 10.09 m | 5.96 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 587,482.00 | 0.35 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 181.02 m | 106.89 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |