HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

126The DAGMAR survey showed that only 6.2% of Haitians went online to seek newsand information.Only 0.7% of Haitians said they had used the internet to seek humanitarianassistance following the January 2010 earthquake.However, the use of social media has been growing fast.According to www.socialbakers.com , there were 411,000 Facebook users in Haiti inSeptember 2011. The overwhelming majority were men under the age of 35.After the 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s internet servers were inoperative for about a week.However, the BlackBerry network still worked.Haiti’s two mobile networks, Digicel and Natcom, both offer internet access to theirsubscribers.There are also six other main Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Haiti: CAN, AccessHaiti, Hainet, Haiti Digital Network (HDN), Multi link and Telecom.These offer subscriptions and tariff packages that start at around US$30 per month.However, the high-speed connections offered by these companies are oftendisrupted by adverse weather conditions.During the passage of tropical storm Isaac in August 2012, Haiti was deprived ofquality Internet communications for practically four days.126