Telecommunication in Slovakia

Compared to the European Union, Slovakia has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +42, there were a total of 7.81 million connections in 2016. Among them were 6.99 million million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.

In the expansion of broadband Internet connections, Slovakia is back. Around 80% of all residents have access to the Internet. Approximately 25% have their own fast Internet connection, which is at least faster than the previous ISDN (more than 2048 kbit/s).

With about 1.38 million webhosts, Slovakia is below the world's average by population.

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Development of telephone and internet connections

The following diagrams show the development of the different 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 subscription.

Spread of internet connections in Slovakia 1990 - 2016

Broadband internet in Slovakia 2002 - 2016

Landlines in the years 1990 - 2016

Mobile phones in Slovakia 1990 - 2016

Spreading in 2016	Slovakia Total	Slovakia percent	EU Total	EU percent
Internet users	4.37 m	80.48 %	413.79 m	80.94 %
Broadband users	1.34 m	24.61 %	169.43 m	33.14 %
Landlines	823,594.00	15.17 %	211.93 m	41.46 %
Mobile cellulars	6.99 m	128.71 %	630.13 m	123.26 %