Gabon: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 18,758 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 2.958 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 173 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: adequate system of cable, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, radiotelephone communication stations, and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations domestic: a growing mobile cellular network with multiple providers is making telephone service more widely available with mobile cellular teledensity exceeding 170 per 100 persons international: country code - 241; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | state owns and operates 2 TV stations and 2 radio broadcast stations; a few private radio and TV stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are accessible; satellite service subscriptions are available (2007) |
Internet country code | .ga |
Internet users | total: 401,000 percent of population: 23.5% (July 2015 est.) |