The Gambia: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 45,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 2 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 2.586 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 131 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: adequate microwave radio relay and open-wire network; state-owned Gambia Telecommunications partially privatized in 2007 domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity, aided by multiple mobile-cellular providers, is roughly 130 per 100 persons international: country code - 220; microwave radio relay links to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; a landing station for the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) undersea fiber-optic cable completed in 2011 and launched in 2012; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-owned, single-channel TV service; state-owned radio station and 15 privately owned radio stations; 6 community radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available, some via shortwave radio; cable and satellite TV subsc (2015) |
| Internet country code | .gm |
| Internet users | total: 337,000 percent of population: 17.1% (July 2015 est.) |