Country Reports

Holy See

Highlights

  1. Internet Society rates the choice of Internet service providers as very poor.
  2. Approximately 85% of the population is an Internet user.

Internet Usage Permanent link

Internet penetration

20192,019.520202,020.520212,021.52022
85%

of the population used the Internet at least once over a 3-month period

89%
Europe average

Average download speed

Based on an average of 300 users

  • No data Mbps

    Broadband

  • No data Mbps

    Mobile

Network Infrastructure Permanent link

Mobile 4G and 5G coverage

No data

has access to at least one device with 4G mobile Internet

No data

has access to at least one device with 5G mobile Internet

Active networks

The building blocks of the Internet, identified by Autonomous System (AS) numbers.

3

active networks

International connections

Routes to the global Internet

Upstream diversity is

Poor

More than 2 connections to the global Internet improves the ability to recover from unexpected events.

Adoption of IPv6

Jan 2021Jul 2021Jan 2022Jul 2022Jan 2023Jul 2023Jan 2024Jul 2024Jan 2025
1%

of users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol

24%
Europe average

Market Overview Permanent link

Top Internet service providers

Top Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by market share

  • ASN-HOLYSEE Holy See Secretariat of State Department of Telecommunications: 98%

Market competition

Very Poor

market competitiveness for Internet customers and end users

Security Permanent link

Routing security practices

The use of resource public key infrastructure (RPKI), which connects IP prefixes to the correct autonomous system (AS)

ROA

Route origin authorization uses a cryptographic signature to certify network announcements

  • 100%
    of IPv4 prefixes protected
  • 53%
    of IPv6 prefixes protected

ROV

Route origin validation filters out route announcements

  • 6%
    of networks are using ROV to filter out invalid prefixes and networks

DNSSEC status

  • Inactive

Adoption of DNSSEC

76%

of DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic

49%
Europe average

Footnotes Permanent link

The geographic boundaries and country names shown do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Internet Society concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities. Regions and Sub-Regions are taken from the UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49).

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