The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, which is led by the World Food Programme, was formally activated in 2013 and works to provide telecommunications services to the humanitarian community responding to the crisis in Syria. The telecommunications sector has been negatively affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria. Average fixed-line upload speeds decreased by 47.3 percent, to 7.04 Mbps, while average mobile upload speeds rose by 16.65 percent, to 9.67 Mbps, between 20. 7Īverage fixed-line download speeds decreased by 35.2 percent, to 5.91 Mbps, while average mobile download speeds rose by 8.06 percent, to 21.05 Mbps, between 20. While mobile broadband penetration was at just 15 percent, mobile broadband coverage was quite high, with about 85 percent of the population covered by third-generation (3G) networks in 2019. 5Īccording to a January 2020 report by DataReportal, internet penetration had reached 47 percent, up from 33 percent the previous year. While areas in the northeast have internet connections from Turkish and Iraqi companies. Areas in the northwest near the border with Turkey are served by Turkish ISPs, 4 Parts of the country that are not held by the government have developed alternative, decentralized systems for securing internet connectivity. Telecommunications services in the recaptured areas remained limited. Although the government continued to reclaim territory during the coverage period, 2 Damage to infrastructure is particularly severe in cities that the government has lost or retaken by force, largely due to heavy bombardment and other conflict-related destruction. 1Ĭonditions worsened beginning in 2011, when electricity outages increased dramatically as a violent government crackdown on public protests evolved into outright civil war. Syria’s telecommunications infrastructure is one of the least developed in the Middle East, and broadband connections are difficult to acquire.
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