
Telecommunication in Bangladesh
Compared to the European Union, Bangladesh is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +880, there were a total of 177.67 million connections in 2020. Among them were 176.28 million 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 71,164 webhosts, Bangladesh is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 23,085 million 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 31.28 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Bangladesh ranked 98th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 29.60 Mbit/second (50th 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, Bangladesh comes 129th with a download speed of 9.7 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 8 Mbit was enough for 103rd 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 Bangladesh from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Bangladesh 2007 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Bangladesh Total | Bangladesh percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Internet users | 40.84 m | 24.80 % | 379.48 m | 84.74 % |
Broadband users | 10.05 m | 6.10 % | 163.72 m | 36.56 % |
Landlines | 1.39 m | 0.84 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 176.28 m | 107.04 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |