TELECOM · SEGMENT

Fixed broadband

Everything Umran tracks on fixed broadband: the measures, the projects, who is building, what is missing, and what has happened.

Telecom Index 4 sourced indicators of 15

Indicators

IndicatorsValueConfidenceSources
Internet penetration
How is this calculated?

No data

A modelled estimate, not a measurement — it does not qualify as independent and cannot count toward the gauge gate. Replace with an ITU or ministry figure if one appears.

Sources

Kepios / DataReportal · 1 October 2025

Confidence: Reported · Last updated: 11 August 2026

Methodology & sources

35.8% of populationReportedKepios / DataReportal
Median download speed
How is this calculated?

No data

M-Lab NDT, but with two conditions that must be settled before a figure is published. First, the tests are user-initiated: people run a speed test when their connection is misbehaving, so volume spikes during outages, and under rolling power cuts that skew is severe. This can only be published as "median measured throughput among users who ran a test, n=X" — never as a national average, and always with the count beside it, which is M-Lab's own guidance. Second, check Syrian sample density first: one BigQuery query against measurement-lab.ndt.ndt7 filtered to client.Geo.CountryCode = 'SY'. If Syrian ASNs return hundreds of tests rather than thousands, this indicator cannot be published honestly at all, and the network-quality domain should be re-scoped to reachability — which IODA and Cloudflare Radar can measure — with the weight change published as a methodology correction.

Sources

No data

Confidence: Not available

Methodology & sources

No dataNot availableNo data
Governorates in fibre plan scope
How is this calculated?

No data

Scope, not delivery. All 14 governorates are inside the plan; none is evidenced as served.

Sources

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Barq Net RFI portal · 15 July 2025

Confidence: Official · Last updated: 11 August 2026

Methodology & sources

14governoratesOfficialMinistry of Communications and Information Technology — Barq Net RFI portal

Projects

Who is involved

Gaps

02

Last mile ahead of the backbone

High fixed-broadband

Current state

Barq Net is the last mile and SilkLink the backbone, the two joining once the backbone completes, per the ministry. But SilkLink's first phase has two incompatible timelines: the ministry's six to eight months from November 2025, and a contractor timeline of starting within 18 to 24 months from February 2026.

Why it matters

Fibre to the home behind an unfinished backbone delivers local speed and a congested international path. The distance between the two timelines is not a scheduling detail — it is the difference between a working last mile and a waiting one.

Indicators: Backbone fibre built FTTH connections

Sources

Sources

SANA, quoting Minister Abdulsalam Haykal · 21 November 2025

Confidence: Official · Last updated: 11 August 2026

Methodology & sources

Developments

  1. Infrastructure

    Barq Net request for information closes

    The RFI covers all 14 governorates on a VULA-based wholesale model.

    Barq Net — fibre to the premisesMinistry of Communications and Information Technology

    Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Barq Net portal Sourced

  2. Infrastructure

    Ministry launches Barq Net

    A nationwide fibre-to-the-premises project on a public–private partnership and an open-access model separating infrastructure from services. The two-year clock on connecting 85% of homes and institutions runs from this date.

    Barq Net — fibre to the premisesMinistry of Communications and Information Technology

    SANA — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology statement Sourced

Sources on this page

  1. SANA Official · 21 November 2025 · Last updated 11 August 2026
  2. Kepios / DataReportal Reported · 1 October 2025 · Last updated 11 August 2026
  3. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Barq Net RFI portal Official · 15 July 2025 · Last updated 11 August 2026
  4. SANA — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology statement Official · 15 June 2025 · Last updated 11 August 2026
  5. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Official · 29 March 2025 · Last updated 11 August 2026