
Telecommunication in Uzbekistan
Compared to the United States, Uzbekistan has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +998, there were a total of 38.54 million connections in 2021. Among them were 35.07 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.0 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 56,075 webhosts, Uzbekistan is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 16,044 of these, or about 29 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 45.03 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Uzbekistan ranks 89th in an international comparison. The upload rate was 46.03 Mbit/second (39th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Uzbekistan comes 122nd with a download speed of 13.95 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 7 Mbit was only enough for 123rd place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 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 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Uzbekistan from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Uzbekistan 2003 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Uzbekistan Total | Uzbekistan percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 6.80 m | 19.48 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 3.47 m | 9.94 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 35.07 m | 100.44 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |