At the end of 2022, there were two fixed-line telephone service providers, three mobile cellular service providers and eleven internet service providers.
In 2022, International Bandwidth Usage was 235,682 Megabits per second (Mbit/s) compared to 211,312 Mbit/s in 2021. The usage per inhabitant progressed by 11.8% from 167,192 bits per second in 2021 to 186,872 bits per second in 2022.
The volume of internet downloads increased by 16.7% from 674,098 terabytes in 2021 to 786,584 terabytes in 2022. Similarly, during the same period, the volume of internet uploads registered an increase of 11.0% from 74,558 terabytes to 82,742 terabytes.
The number of fixed telephone lines went down by 1.5% from 469,100 in 2021 to 462,100 in 2022. The number of fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants decreased from 37.1 in 2021 to 36.6 in 2022.
The population covered by mobile cellular telephony comprises the number of inhabitants who live within areas covered by a mobile cellular network, irrespective of whether they subscribe to the service. In 2022, some 99% of the population was covered by mobile cellular telephony, same as in 2021.
In 2022, Broadband Internet subscriptions which constituted 96.6% of total internet subscriptions, increased b y 6.8% to reach 1,858,900 compared to 1,740,600 in 2021. On the other hand, Narrowband Internet subscriptions contracted by 8.0% from 71,100 in 2021 to 65,400 in 2022.
Broadband Internet subscriptions based on mobile access, accounting for 82.0% of total Broadband Internet subscriptions network in 2022, reached 1,524,600 showing a growth of 8.0% over the figure of 1,411,700 in 2021. Those based on fixed (including wireless) network increased by 1.6% from 328,900 in 2021 to 334,300 in 2022.
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