
Telecommunication in Poland
The development of telecommunications in Poland is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +48, there were a total of 55.90 million connections in 2021. Among them were 50.59 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 13.27 million webhosts, Poland is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 954,351 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 94.50 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Poland ranks 34th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 33.93 Mbit/second was significantly lower (54th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Poland comes 53rd with a download speed of 40.35 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 9 Mbit was only enough for 101st 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 Poland from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Poland 2001 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Poland Total | Poland percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 8.81 m | 23.34 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 5.31 m | 14.06 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 50.59 m | 134.02 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |