Enabled as of September 1996 actual beginning to access the Internet Yemen, has assumed the company "TeleYemen" important supplier and provide this service to those who wish to participate under the system put by the company itself, in which it identified three options to subscribe for use in addition to participate purpose of opening and establishing special sites in the context of the Internet, subscribers have the right to take any specific option.
Statistics show that the number of subscribers to use arrived in the month September 1996 to 176 common distributed in most provinces of the Republic and during the period from then take that number expands continuously until it reached the end of August 1998 to 1704 common a joint, an increase of nearly than tenfold for the first month subscription and of course was delayed up to open sites for a few months could then note the presence of a number of participants in the list of shareholders establish their own sites until it reached that number in the end of August 1998 also 34 common, The number of Internet users increase to 110,000 users in 2006.
It has been observed by the results of the questionnaire that the proportion of subscription Profile of total subscribe in the sample represent 30% while the percentage of subscription government 25% while the percentage of private sector participation to 45% while noting that participation of government is concentrated in government agencies concerned senior management of the activities of the state and the private sector participation is distributed to the general business activities and various productive and service while we find that personal involvement is limited among university qualifications and higher levels.
Seen through our follow to use the Internet in different activities that the presence of the commercial sector in the context of the Internet on a global scale is growing at a rapid rate may outweigh what they are in other sectors, but that the continued expansion of business activities and business activities through the Internet has become a major factor motive for expanded Internet services themselves have clearly show that the use of Internet technology in the management and implementation of business processes helps to facilitate the provision of consumer needs and shorten the time and reduce the costs of business and marketing and expand the field of competition and stimulate production linked to improving the ability of the definition and thus increase profitability and contribute to reducing the burden of the national economy and reduce the cost of individual consumption, not to mention provide more job opportunities and employment factors of science and technology in the development of lifestyles.
E-government project started in 2000 to give citizens the ability to access Web services and put the finishing touches on G2C transactions and the number of Internet users significantly. But still the quality of speed is not up to the required level, wired and wireless communications, for international calls, particularly in Europe and the United States of America is very high in comparison with Yemen and other countries.