
Telecommunication on the Fijis
Compared to the United States, the Fijis is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +679, there were a total of 1.04 million connections in 2021. Among them were 991,500 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 21,739 webhosts, the Fijis is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 238 of these, or about 1 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 13.28 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, the Fijis ranks 138th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 8.6 Mbit/second (134th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, the Fijis comes 102nd with a download speed of 19.16 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 11 Mbit was enough for 59th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in October 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 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet on the Fijis from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet on the Fijis 2005 - 2020
