
Telecommunication in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Compared to the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +387, there were a total of 4.22 million connections in 2020. Among them were 3.51 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 155,252 webhosts, Bosnia and Herzegovina is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 10,382 million of these, or about 7 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 24.46 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Bosnia and Herzegovina ranked 106th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 5.0 Mbit/second was significantly lower (144th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 44th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Bosnia and Herzegovina comes 66th with a download speed of 27.49 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 14 Mbit was enough for 20th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2022 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2000 - 2020

Landlines 1992 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Bosnia and Herzegovina Total | Bosnia and Herzegovina percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Internet users | 2.40 m | 73.21 % | 379.48 m | 84.74 % |
Broadband users | 770,424.00 | 23.48 % | 163.72 m | 36.56 % |
Landlines | 706,135.00 | 21.52 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 3.51 m | 106.98 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |