
Telecommunication in Slovakia
The development of telecommunications in Slovakia is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +421, there were a total of 7.94 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.36 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.4 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 1.38 million webhosts, Slovakia is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 141,484 of these, or about 10 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 58.38 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Slovakia ranks 69th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 26.02 Mbit/second was significantly lower (74th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Slovakia comes 44th with a download speed of 46.57 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 12 Mbit was only enough for 55th 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 Slovakia from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Slovakia 2002 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
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Distribution in 2021 | Slovakia Total | Slovakia percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Internet users | 4.84 m | 88.93 % | 304.52 m | 91.75 % |
Broadband users | 1.77 m | 32.58 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Landlines | 577,390.00 | 10.60 % | 97.82 m | 29.47 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.36 m | 135.16 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |