
Telecommunication in Palau
Compared to the United States, Palau has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +680, there were a total of 32,000 connections in 2021. Among them were 24,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.3 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about four webhosts, Palau is below the world's average by population.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
This is how much a mobile phone contract costs in Palau
Every year, the International Telecommunication Union calculates for many countries what a mobile phone contract costs to use. A monthly budget averaging US$ 20.10 was calculated Palau in 2021. Compared to the previous year, this amount decreased by 1 cents.The ITU refers to the costs for monthly use and includes 140 telephony minutes, 70 text messages and a data transfer of 2 GBytes. The transfer speed should be the minimum of a 3G connection, i.e. at least UMTS, which is already outdated in many parts of the world. 2 GBytes do not sound much. However, this is already quite a high consumption in a worldwide comparison. If one does not take a fixed amount in US dollars, but converts it to the economic output per inhabitant, a user in Palau spends 1.9% of his gross national income on mobile telephony. Worldwide, this rate is around 6.6 percent.
In the USA, the monthly cost was around $41.80.
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 Palau from 1990 - 2004
Broadband internet in Palau 2004 - 2019

Landlines 2002 - 2021
Mobile phones 2002 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Palau Total | Palau percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Landlines | 8,000.00 | 44.39 % | 97.82 m | 29.47 % |
Mobile cellulars | 24,000.00 | 133.16 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |