
Telecommunication on the Fijis
Compared to the European Union, 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 2020. Among them were 991,500 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 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 million 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 13.77 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, the Fijis ranked 129th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 8.1 Mbit/second (125th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 5th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, the Fijis comes 81st with a download speed of 22.21 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 10 Mbit was enough for 69th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in April 2022 from 181 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% 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

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Fiji Total | Fiji percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Broadband users | 23,062.00 | 2.57 % | 163.72 m | 36.56 % |
Landlines | 48,510.00 | 5.41 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 991,500.00 | 110.60 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |