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The Shocking Truth About Internet Access in Burkina Faso – From White Zones to Starlink Dreams

The Shocking Truth About Internet Access in Burkina Faso – From White Zones to Starlink Dreams

As of 2023, internet penetration in Burkina Faso is about 20%, with roughly 4.7 million active internet users in a 23 million population. By late 2023 there were about 17 million mobile internet subscriptions, offering ~77% potential coverage though many subscribers are not active. Fixed broadband remains extremely limited, with about 85,000 active fixed internet subscriptions in Q3 2023, up 140% from 2022. There is a pronounced urban–rural gap: 3G reaches about 64% of the country and 4G/LTE about 46%, 85% have basic mobile signal, 15% have no signal, 1,700 white zones were identified in 2022, of which only 183
2 June 2025
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Bosnia’s Internet in 2025: Surprising Growth Amid Shocking Gaps in Connectivity

Bosnia’s Internet in 2025: Surprising Growth Amid Shocking Gaps in Connectivity

As of 2025, about 83% of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s population uses the Internet. 4G/LTE networks reach roughly 94% of the population, served by BH Telecom (BH Mobile), M:tel, and HT Eronet. 5G is not commercially deployed in 2025, with authorities predicting spectrum auctions may occur in 2025–2026 after regulatory delays. Fixed broadband shares (2023) are DSL around 50.1%, Cable about 29.8%, Fiber (FTTx) about 12.6%, Fixed Wireless about 7.2%, and Leased lines about 0.2%. FTTH fiber coverage reaches less than 10% of households, one of the lowest fiber coverage rates in Europe. Starlink is set to enter Bosnia in 2025,
2 June 2025
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The Internet Frontier: How Bolivia Is Connecting from the Peaks to the Stars

The Internet Frontier: How Bolivia Is Connecting from the Peaks to the Stars

TKSat-1, launched in 2013 as a $300 million geostationary satellite with China’s help, enabled rural internet, backhaul for mobile towers, and community telecenters with latency around 600 ms. Plans for Túpac Katari 2 with substantially higher throughput were discussed, but a second satellite had not materialized by 2025. In August 2024 Bolivia banned unlicensed Starlink terminals, yet by early 2025 an estimated 10,000 Starlink kits were in use on the gray market, often roaming from Peru, with about $50/month and $500 equipment. The El Alto national data center opened in February 2025, a $52 million Tier III facility owned by
1 June 2025
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Starlink and the Satellite Internet Market (2025) – Comprehensive Report

Starlink and the Satellite Internet Market (2025) – Comprehensive Report

Starlink uses a direct-to-consumer model with a Starlink kit (dish antenna + WiFi router) and monthly service, priced around $100–$120 per month, with the kit originally costing about $599 (some markets as low as $350). Speeds reach roughly 50–200 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–40 ms, far lower than geostationary satellites. Starlink Roam for RVs, Maritime for ships (initially about $5,000 per month with dual terminals for ocean coverage), and Aviation with dedicated aero antennas (about $150,000 hardware and $12,500–25,000 monthly for unlimited in-flight Wi‑Fi) illustrate its multi-sector strategy. In 2023 Starlink began beta mobile-phone connectivity
1 June 2025
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The Real State of Internet in Belarus: Wired, Wireless, and Watching from the Sky

The Real State of Internet in Belarus: Wired, Wireless, and Watching from the Sky

By the end of 2022, 89.5% of Belarusians were online, with about 8.27 million internet users and 86.9% penetration recorded by early 2023. Beltelecom reported about 2.9 million GPON fiber subscribers by the end of 2022, a figure that reached roughly 3 million by mid-2024. Approximately 82.4% of small settlements with 50–100 inhabitants have access to fiber-optic broadband. As of April 2024, 4G LTE coverage reached 93% of Belarus’s territory and 99% of its population via the beCloud network. MTS Belarus had around 5.7 million mobile subscribers, A1 about 4.8 million, and life:) about 1.5 million as of 2024. There
1 June 2025
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Bahrain’s Internet Secrets Revealed: What They Don’t Tell You About Your Connection

Bahrain’s Internet Secrets Revealed: What They Don’t Tell You About Your Connection

By mid-2024, about 60% of Bahraini households had fiber-optic internet via the wholesale operator BNET, with roughly 171,000 fiber subscriptions in Q2 2024 and top plans up to 2 Gbps. Batelco, STC Bahrain, and Zain have launched 5G with over 98% population coverage, and the median mobile download speed was about 119 Mbps in early 2024. Fixed-line penetration was around 13–14% in 2023, with about 261,000 fixed phone lines in operation, and the median fixed broadband speed was about 80.8 Mbps in early 2024. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) regulates the market, promotes competition, and oversees the separation of Batelco’s
31 May 2025
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Internet Access in The Bahamas

Internet Access in The Bahamas

As of January 2024, 390,800 Bahamians were internet users, representing about 94.4% of the population. Fixed broadband adoption is only about 24% nationwide, with many Bahamians relying on mobile data for online access. The Bahamas spans roughly 700 islands with about 30 inhabited, creating significant challenges for universal fixed-network coverage. Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) offers fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) with speeds up to 1 Gbps, including mid-tier plans around 150–350 Mbps priced from roughly $70–$85 per month. Cable Bahamas (REV) provides fiber/broadband via a hybrid network, with ALIV Fibr delivering fiber speeds up to 1 Gbps in select areas and standalone 100
31 May 2025
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Blazing Broadband in Paradise: Inside Antigua & Barbuda’s Internet Revolution

Blazing Broadband in Paradise: Inside Antigua & Barbuda’s Internet Revolution

Antigua and Barbuda has a population just under 95,000 and about 91% of Antiguans were online by early 2024. The fiber-to-the-home rollout was completed in 2022, with APUA’s fiber network delivering up to 500 Mbps and basic fiber prices cut from XCD 335 for 20 Mbps DSL to under XCD 100. The market is dominated by three ISPs—APUA Inet, Digicel, and Flow—with APUA controlling about 64% of broadband connections. As of mid-2024, commercial 5G had not launched, but 4G remains strong and networks are being upgraded across the islands. Starlink was slated to roll out by end of 2024 and
30 May 2025
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Internet Access in Andorra: From Mountain Signals to Starlink Skies

Internet Access in Andorra: From Mountain Signals to Starlink Skies

By 2012 Andorra completed nationwide Fiber-to-the-Home rollout, wiring 100% of homes with fiber and establishing internet as a universal service delivering at least 100 Mbps. Copper ADSL networks were fully decommissioned by 2016. Andorra Telecom is the sole ISP and 100% government‑owned, delivering fixed broadband, mobile services, landlines, and TV across the country. Andorra’s mobile network provides 4G LTE coverage over about 98% of the territory, with 5G launched in December 2021 in Non-Standalone mode and a goal of 99% population coverage by end-2022 and a full Standalone core by 2025. Residential fiber plans include Fiber 300 (300 Mbps symmetric)
30 May 2025
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Internet Access in Algeria

Internet Access in Algeria

As of early 2024, Algeria had about 33.5 million internet users, roughly 72.9% of the population. By January 2025, internet penetration rose to about 76.9% of the population. There were over 50 million mobile subscriptions in 2024, often exceeding the population due to multiple SIMs per user. By early 2023 Algeria had 5.12 million fixed internet subscribers, up from 3.5 million in 2020, a 45% increase and making it the second-highest in Africa and third in the Arab world. In 2023 fixed broadband penetration was about 12 subscriptions per 100 people. By April 2025 Algérie Télécom reported over 2 million
30 May 2025
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10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)

10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)

The Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) became Seychelles’ first major undersea cable, linking the islands to continental Africa in the early 2010s and ending reliance on satellites. In August 2021, Intelvision secured support to lease a branch of the 2Africa submarine cable, enabling 600 Gbps of international capacity and added redundancy. Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS) began a nationwide Fibre-to-the-Home rollout in 2017, aiming to replace all copper lines with fiber by 2020. By late 2024, Cable & Wireless Seychelles launched “GigaNet,” Africa’s first 10 Gbps broadband service, using 50G-PON technology. International bandwidth available to Seychelles’ ISPs grew from about
29 May 2025
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State of Internet Access in Mexico: The Digital Divide, Ground and Sky

State of Internet Access in Mexico: The Digital Divide, Ground and Sky

As of early 2024, Mexico had over 107 million internet users, about 83% of the population. Fixed broadband is increasingly fiber-based, with around 70% of fixed connections using fiber (FTTH) and Telmex migrating about 85% of its broadband customers from DSL to fiber. Red Compartida, launched in 2018 by Altán Redes, reached 95.3% of the population by June 2024, exceeding its 92.2% target. CFE TEIT started in 2022 and had installed 91,000 free Wi‑Fi access points nationwide by early 2024. Mexico’s mobile market reached 125.4 million active mobile lines by early 2024, about 97% of the population. 5G rollout progressed
29 May 2025
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