
Telecommunication in Kuwait
The development of telecommunications in Kuwait is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +965, there were a total of 7.50 million connections in 2021. Among them were 6.92 million 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 2,771 webhosts, Kuwait is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 1,770 of these, or about 64 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 131.11 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Kuwait ranks 23rd in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 25.24 Mbit/second was significantly lower (77th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Kuwait comes 6th with a download speed of 119.79 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 21 Mbit was only enough for 7th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2023 from 180 countries.
This is how much a mobile phone contract costs in Kuwait
Every year, the International Telecommunication Union calculates for many countries what a mobile phone contract costs to use. A monthly budget averaging US$ 23.70 was calculated Kuwait in 2019. Compared to the previous year, this amount increased by 4 cents.The ITU refers to the costs for monthly use and includes 140 telephony minutes, 70 text messages and a data transfer of 2 GBytes. The transfer speed should be the minimum of a 3G connection, i.e. at least UMTS, which is already outdated in many parts of the world. 2 GBytes do not sound much. However, this is already quite a high consumption in a worldwide comparison. If one does not take a fixed amount in US dollars, but converts it to the economic output per inhabitant, a user in Kuwait spends 0.83% of his gross national income on mobile telephony. Worldwide, this rate is around 10.37 percent.
In the USA, the monthly cost was around $45.70.
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 Kuwait from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Kuwait 2001 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
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Distribution in 2021 | Kuwait Total | Kuwait percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Internet users | 4.24 m | 99.70 % | 304.52 m | 91.75 % |
Broadband users | 70,468.00 | 1.66 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Mobile cellulars | 6.92 m | 162.78 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |