The coverage of Uzbekistan's settlements with mobile communication networks has reached 99.5%, and international highways with mobile Internet — 95.5%. This was announced by the Minister of Digital Technologies Sherzod Shermatov, responding to a parliamentary inquiry on the implementation of the “Digital Uzbekistan — 2030” strategy. Since the beginning of 2026, over 11 thousand base stations have been installed in the country, bringing their total number to 110.5 thousand. The bandwidth of backbone networks across regions has increased from 400 Gbit/s in 2020 to 600 Gbit/s, and across districts — from 40 to 60 Gbit/s.
High-speed Internet is provided to 10,657 public education facilities, 6,988 preschool organizations, 5,786 healthcare institutions, 8,935 mahalla citizens' gatherings, and 5,250 internal affairs support points. The length of fiber-optic communication lines has increased from 119.5 thousand km in 2020 to 397 thousand km. This infrastructure covers 98.1% of settlements, and by the end of the year, this figure is planned to reach 98.2%.
Uzbekistan also rose from 133rd to 72nd place in the mobile Internet speed ranking and from 112th to 73rd place in fixed connection speed, taking first place in Central Asia in the second category. The bandwidth of international Internet channels has increased from 1200 Gbit/s in 2020 to 4400 Gbit/s. By the end of 2026, it is intended to increase it to 4500 Gbit/s, and by 2030 — to 5000 Gbit/s. Deputies proposed to objectively assess the results of digitalization and timely eliminate obstacles to achieving target indicators.