Ethiopia: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 890,642 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 42.312 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 43 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: inadequate telephone system with the Ethio Telecom maintaining a monopoly over telecommunication services; open-wire, microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies; 2 domestic satellites provide the national trunk service domestic: the number of mobile telephones is increasing steadily from a small base and now stands at over 40 per 100 persons international: country code - 251; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | 6 public TV stations broadcasting nationally and 10 public radio broadcasters; 7 private radio stations and 18 community radio stations (2015) |
| Internet country code | .et |
| Internet users | total: 11.538 million percent of population: 11.6% (July 2015 est.) |