
Telecommunication in Tuvalu
Compared to the European Union, Tuvalu is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +688, there were a total of 11,000 connections in 2020. Among them were 9,000 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.76 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 145,158 webhosts, Tuvalu is well above the world's average. At the end of 2020, 3 million of these, or about 0 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% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.Access to the Internet in Tuvalu from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet in Tuvalu 2004 - 2019

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Tuvalu Total | Tuvalu percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Landlines | 2,000.00 | 16.96 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 9,000.00 | 76.32 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |