Telecommunication in Brunei

The development of telecommunications in Brunei is roughly equivalent to the average of the European Union. Under the country code +673, there were a total of 630,617 connections in 2020. Among them were 526,732 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.2 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.

In the expansion of broadband Internet connections, Brunei is back. Around 95% of all residents have access to the Internet. Approximately 16% have their own fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the previous ISDN (more than 2048 kbit/s).

With about 49,457 webhosts, Brunei is below the world's average by population.

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Development of telephone and internet connections

With an average download speed of 36.12 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Brunei ranked 99th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 24.68 Mbit/second (81st place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 20th place.
In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Brunei comes 46th with a download speed of 52.02 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 21 Mbit was only enough for 12th place.

The "Speedtest Global Index" published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in Mai 2021 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 Brunei from 1990 - 2019

Broadband internet in Brunei 2001 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020

Mobile phones 1990 - 2020

Distribution in 2020	Brunei Total	Brunei percent	EU Total	EU percent
Broadband users	71,078.00	16.25 %	162.67 m	36.33 %
Landlines	103,885.00	23.75 %	159.99 m	35.73 %
Mobile cellulars	526,732.00	120.40 %	541.96 m	121.03 %