Democratic Republic of the Congo: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 59,534 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (July 2012 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 37.753 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 48 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: barely adequate wire and microwave radio relay service in and between urban areas; domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations; inadequate fixed-line infrastructure domestic: state-owned operator providing less than 1 fixed-line connection per 100 persons; given the backdrop of a wholly inadequate fixed-line infrastructure, the use of mobile-cellular services has surged and mobile teledensity is over 45 per 100 persons international: country code - 243; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-owned TV broadcast station with near national coverage; more than a dozen privately owned TV stations - 2 with near national coverage; 2 state-owned radio stations are supplemented by more than 100 private radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 (2007) |
| Internet country code | .cd |
| Internet users | total: 3.016 million percent of population: 3.8% (July 2015 est.) |