
Telecommunication in Papua New Guinea
Compared to the United States, Papua New Guinea is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +675, there were a total of 4.98 million connections in 2021. Among them were 4.82 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.49 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 5,006 webhosts, Papua New Guinea is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2019, 498 of these, or about 10 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
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 Papua New Guinea from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Papua New Guinea 2008 - 2020
