Lesotho: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 45,364 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 2 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 2.237 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 115 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: rudimentary system consisting of a modest number of landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a small radiotelephone communication system; mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding domestic: privatized in 2001, Telecom Lesotho was tasked with providing an additional 50,000 fixed-line connections within five years, a target not met; mobile-cellular service dominates the market and is expanding with a subscribership now over 110 per 100 persons international: country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | 1 state-owned TV station and 2 state-owned radio stations; government controls most private broadcast media; satellite TV subscription service available; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters obtainable (2008) |
Internet country code | .ls |
Internet users | total: 313,000 percent of population: 16.1% (July 2015 est.) |