Telecommunication in Kyrgyzstan
Compared to the European Union, Kyrgyzstan is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +996, there were a total of 8.92 million connections in 2020. Among them were 8.62 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.In the expansion of broadband Internet connections, Kyrgyzstan is back. Around 38% of all residents have access to the Internet. Approximately 4% have their own fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the previous ISDN (more than 2048 kbit/s).
With about 115,573 webhosts, Kyrgyzstan is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 2,771 million of these, or about 2 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 51.07 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Kyrgyzstan ranked 86th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 50.84 Mbit/second (46th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 25th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Kyrgyzstan comes 103rd with a download speed of 24.71 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 12 Mbit was enough for 88th place.
The "Speedtest Global Index" published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in September 2021 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.
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