Mauritius: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 380,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 28 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 1.762 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 132 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: small system with good service domestic: monopoly over fixed-line services terminated in 2005; fixed-line teledensity roughly 25 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services launched in 1989 with current teledensity roughly 130 per 100 persons international: country code - 230; landing point for the SAFE submarine cable that provides links to Asia and South Africa where it connects to the SAT-3/WASC submarine cable that provides further links to parts of East Africa, and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 In (2015) |
| Broadcast media | the government maintains control over TV broadcasting through the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), which operates 3 analog and 10 digital TV stations; MBC is a shareholder in a local company that operates 2 pay-TV stations; the state retains the (2007) |
| Internet country code | .mu |
| Internet users | total: 672,000 percent of population: 50.1% (July 2015 est.) |