Introduction
How is the communication system in Uzbekistan? Here, Broadcast media include the government controls media; 17 state-owned broadcasters - 13 TV and 4 radio - provide service to virtually the entire country; about 20 privately owned TV stations, overseen by local officials, broadcast to local markets; privately owned TV stations are required to lease transmitters from the government-owned Republic TV and Radio Industry Corporation; in 2019, the Uzbek Agency for Press and Information was reorganized into the Agency of Information and Mass Communications and became part of the Uzbek Presidential Administration (2019). What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Uzbekistan
Internet country code .uz
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
Total 4,820,009 (2020 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 14 (2020 est.)
Internet users
Total 26.18 million (2021 est.)
Percent of population 77% (2021 est.)
Telecommunication systems
General assessment Uzbekistan’s telecom markets both wireline and wireless have been playing "catch up" in terms of their development following the country's independence from the former Soviet Union; the government has formally adopted the principles of operating as a market economy, many elements of the old centrally planned economic model remain; this has had the effect of reducing the level of interest from foreign companies and investors in building out the necessary underlying infrastructure, which in turn has constrained the rate of growth in the country’s telecoms sector; the last five years has seen an upswing in prospects for the sector as fiber network roll outs continue beyond the main urban centers, while the mobile market experiences some consolidation for stronger, more efficient competitors; growth is present in the fixed broadband segment with penetration projected to reach 24% by 2027 (a 5-year CAGR of 6.2%); despite the promising signs in the fixed markets, it is the mobile segment that continues to dominate Uzbekistan’s telecoms sector in terms of penetration, revenue, and growth;  there are four major operators providing a modicum of competition; three of the four are government owned entities (2024)
Domestic Fixed-line nearly 16 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular teledensity of 103 per 100 persons (2022)
International Country code - 998; linked by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch; the country also has a link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; Uzbekistan has supported the national fiber-optic backbone project of Afghanistan since 2008
Telephones - fixed lines
Total subscriptions 5.686 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 16 (2022 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular
Total subscriptions 35.69 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 103 (2022 est.)
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Uzbekistan is found in Central Asia