Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Turkmenistan: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
In Turkmenistan operators of internet services must keep information about users and the services provided to them for at least twelve months and produce it on the request of judicial or law-enforcement bodies, under the statute on the legal regulation of the Internet and Internet services.
The statute On the legal regulation of the development of the Internet and Internet services in Turkmenistan has eight chapters and 34 articles. Article 25 obliges operators to keep information about users and the services provided to them for at least 12 months and to provide it on the request of judicial or law-enforcement bodies. Operators also document information in the terms and manner set by the service contract and by regulations (article 22).
Hosting is a defined service: an operator places a client’s resource on equipment permanently connected to the network (article 15). Operators answer for breaches of message secrecy, for breaches of the documentation rules and for using uncertified cryptographic protection (article 31).
An operator is any person or company giving users in Turkmenistan access to the internet or other services delivered with internet technologies; a communications operator or an internet provider may act as one (article 1). Whether the statute reaches a VPN operator hosting servers in the country is not established.
Article 30 lists what users answer for: sending information whose distribution is banned or restricted, or that contains state or other protected secrets, and distributing material that insults or slanders the President, calls for violent change of the constitutional order, promotes war, violence or racial, national or religious hatred, or is pornographic.
Under article 31, the communications authority may suspend any technical means and networks if an operator uses them to harm the interests of the individual, society or the state.
Article 30 also makes users answerable for unauthorised access to protected computer information and for unauthorised entry into internal information systems that destroys, blocks or alters the information in them. It also covers receiving or transmitting information through third parties without going through the operator (article 30(6)) and passing on rights to use internet services (article 30(7)).
The Constitution in its 2016 revision protects private and family secrets and the secrecy of correspondence, telephone and other communications from arbitrary interference (article 37). It declares judges independent and subject only to the Constitution and the law (article 98), and provides that the President of Turkmenistan appoints and dismisses them (article 100). The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Turkmenistan
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
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Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
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