According to various sources, around 41,000 Tajiks use Facebook which is comparatively

lower than Kyrgyzstan (with more than 109,000) and Uzbekistan (with 152,000). But,

relatively speaking, discussions on Tajik pages of Facebook are fiercer and hotter than those

of Uzbek and Kyrgyz groups. In fact, Facebook has become a battlefield between the

advocates of change, opponents of President Rahman, and his supporters who want to

preserve status quo in Tajikistan.

 

Mobile phones are now the most widespread tools of communication in Tajikistan. On the

National Youth Day, May 23, 2013, in his address to the young population, President

Emamali Rahman said that the number of mobile subscribers in the country had reached 10

million. The country's population is 8 million. Compared to 2010, the number of subscribers

had increased by 4 million, as there had been only 6 million subscribers three years ago, he

added. However, according to the data released by the state Communication Service in

January 2013, there were 8.3 million mobile subscribers in Tajikistan at the end of the last

year. Out of this figure, 4.7 million mobile subscribers are considered to be active users.36