Eritrea: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 66,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 475,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 7 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: woefully inadequate service provided by state-owned telecom monopoly; most fixed-line telephones are in Asmara; cell phone use only slowly increasing throughout the country domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership is less than 10 per 100 persons international: country code - 291 (2015) |
Broadcast media | government controls broadcast media with private ownership prohibited; 1 state-owned TV station; state-owned radio operates 2 networks; purchases of satellite dishes and subscriptions to international broadcast media are permitted (2007) |
Internet country code | .er |
Internet users | total: 71,000 percent of population: 1.1% (July 2015 est.) |