French Guiana

Highlights

  1. Out of the 1000 most-visited websites, 12% can be reached on a local server or cache in French Guiana. This falls below Internet Society's target of 50%.
  2. Approximately 26% of the population is an Internet user.
  3. Internet Society rates the choice of Internet service providers as poor.
  4. In French Guiana, there is 1 data center and there is 1 active IXP.
ccTLD
.gf
Flag of French Guiana
Region
Americas
Sub-region
South America

Internet Usage Permanent link

Internet penetration

26%

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

85%
Americas average

Average Internet cost

25.25%

of average income (GNI) is needed to cover a low-consumption basket, using at least 3G technology.

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

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

Adoption of IPv6

26%
of users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol
44%
Americas average

Market Overview Permanent link

Data centers

Number of data centers in operation

1

active data center

Internet Exchange Points

1

IXP in French Guiana

6
Americas average
33% of 3

active networks connect via an IXP

Total number of IXP members in French Guiana

Locally cached content

12%

of the top 1000 websites in French Guiana can be accessed through an in-country server or cache

72%
Americas average

Top Internet service providers

Top Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by market share

  • Orange S.A.: 60%
  • Outremer Telecom SAS: 50%
  • Canal + Telecom SAS: 31%
  • SpaceX Starlink: 7%
  • DIGICEL ANTILLES FRANCAISES GUYANE SA: 2%

Market competition

Poor

market competitiveness for Internet customers and end users

Country-level domain use

1,346

domains registered using .gf, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD).

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
  • 100%
    of IPv6 prefixes protected

ROV

Route origin validation filters out route announcements

  • 87%
    of networks are using ROV to filter out invalid prefixes and networks

DNSSEC status

  • Inactive

Adoption of DNSSEC

39%

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

35%
Americas average

Footnotes Permanent link

Pulse uses the most recent possible data from international sources. For some indicators in Pulse, the source data may be updated more frequently. For more information on how often we update individual data points, see the Indicator page.