Key Facts at a Glance Overview of the Internet Landscape in Saint Kitts Saint Kitts and Nevis (population ~47,000) enjoys a robust internet landscape for its size. Internet penetration is around 76% datareportal.com, meaning over three-quarters of citizens use the internet regularly – a high rate for the Caribbean. The twin-island nation’s telecom market is…
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Overview of Internet Infrastructure in Guyana Guyana’s internet infrastructure has evolved from rudimentary beginnings into a more robust, modern network. The country – sparsely populated and covered in rainforest outside its coastal strip – long relied on a limited telecommunications setup. Until the 2000s, most Guyanese accessed the internet via dial-up or very slow broadband…
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Key Facts at a Glance 1. Overview of Internet Infrastructure in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland’s internet infrastructure has undergone a rapid transformation, emerging as a standout success story in the UK. In 2025, NI boasts the most extensive high-speed broadband coverage of any UK nation, alongside near-ubiquitous mobile connectivity. This small region (population ~1.9 million)…
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As of early 2024 Panama had 3.54 million internet users, about 78.8% of the population, with roughly 950,000 people still offline. By 2023 fixed broadband penetration reached about 18.1 per 100 people, equating to roughly 809,000 fixed lines in a country of about 4.5 million people. At the start of 2024, the median fixed broadband…
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By mid-2024, Spain’s fiber broadband coverage reached 95.2% of the population, well above the EU average. Telefónica’s Movistar completed the copper switch-off in May 2025, with the last copper exchanges closed and fiber replacing copper nationwide. Movistar’s fixed fiber network reaches about 31 million premises. Fiber accounts for about 89.3% of fixed broadband subscriptions (16.6…
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By 2023 Laos had laid over 98,500 kilometers of fiber-optic cable and operates 18 international transmission lines interconnecting with Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and China. Mobile signal reaches 97% of villages nationwide, covering 8,245 villages across 18 provinces. As of late 2024, 2G coverage reached 97% of the population, 3G covered 85%, and 4G/LTE about…
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As of early 2025, about 1.8 million Sierra Leoneans used the internet, roughly 20% of the population. By 2024, 4G coverage reached about 79% of the population. The leading mobile operators are Africell, Orange (SL), and QCell, with the state-owned Sierratel in the process of privatization. Starlink arrived in Sierra Leone in 2023–2024, with hardware…
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The Gambia has used the ACE submarine fiber-optic cable since 2011, but a 2022 ACE outage knocked the country offline for over eight hours and backup links via Senegal failed, prompting plans for a second submarine cable landing in Banjul under the World Bank-funded Western Africa Regional Digital Integration Program (WARDIP). Gamtel launched the National…
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Moldova ranks 3rd in the world for gigabit fiber coverage, with about 90% of the population having access to gigabit-speed plans. The average fixed broadband download speed is about 120 Mbps, placing Moldova around 40th globally for fixed speeds. Moldtelecom and StarNet together account for roughly 80–90% of fixed broadband subscribers, underpinning nationwide access. As…
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The Coral Sea Cable System is a 4,700 km submarine fiber‑optic link completed in late 2019 and brought online in 2020, connecting Solomon Islands to Papua New Guinea and Australia with an initial 200 Gbps capacity and up to 20 Tbps total. Since going live, the Coral Sea cable has allowed ten times more data…
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