Niger: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 110,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 8.959 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 50 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: inadequate; small system of wire, radio telephone communications, and microwave radio relay links concentrated in southwestern Niger domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains only about 50 per 100 persons despite a rapidly increasing cellular subscribership base; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned international: country code - 227; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-run TV station; 3 private TV stations provide a mix of local and foreign programming; state-run radio has only radio station with national coverage; about 30 private radio stations operate locally; as many as 100 community radio stations broadcast; (2007) |
| Internet country code | .ne |
| Internet users | total: 401,000 percent of population: 2.2% (July 2015 est.) |