
Telecommunication in Georgia
Compared to the European Union, Georgia has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +995, there were a total of 5.49 million connections in 2020. Among them were 5.10 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.4 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 357,864 webhosts, Georgia is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 13,020 million of these, or about 4 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 19.80 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Georgia ranked 120th in an international comparison. The upload rate was 20.40 Mbit/second (74th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 5th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Georgia comes 60th with a download speed of 31.59 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 11 Mbit was enough for 59th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in April 2022 from 181 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 Georgia from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Georgia 2001 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Georgia Total | Georgia percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Internet users | 2.70 m | 72.53 % | 379.21 m | 84.74 % |
Broadband users | 972,162.00 | 26.11 % | 163.72 m | 36.59 % |
Landlines | 387,698.00 | 10.41 % | 160.15 m | 35.79 % |
Mobile cellulars | 5.10 m | 137.00 % | 540.56 m | 120.80 % |