
Telecommunication in San Marino
The development of telecommunications in San Marino is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +378, there were a total of 56,000 connections in 2021. Among them were 40,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.2 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 11,015 webhosts, San Marino is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 3,277 of these, or about 30 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 76.63 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, San Marino ranks 55th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 19.85 Mbit/second was significantly lower (93rd place).The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2023 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 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in San Marino from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in San Marino 2003 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
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Distribution in 2021 | San Marino Total | San Marino percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Internet users | 25,262.29 | 74.86 % | 304.52 m | 91.75 % |
Broadband users | 12,000.00 | 35.56 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Landlines | 16,000.00 | 47.41 % | 97.82 m | 29.47 % |
Mobile cellulars | 40,000.00 | 118.54 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |