Nigeria: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 187,155 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: less than 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 150.83 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 83 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: further expansion and modernization of the fixed-line telephone network is needed; network quality remains a problem domestic: fixed-line subscribership remains only about 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services growing rapidly, in part responding to the shortcomings of the fixed-line network; multiple cellular providers operate nationally with subscribership base over 80 per international: country code - 234; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | nearly 70 federal government-controlled national and regional TV stations; all 36 states operate TV stations; several private TV stations operational; cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; network of federal government-controlled nat (2007) |
| Internet country code | .ng |
| Internet users | total: 86.138 million percent of population: 47.4% (July 2015 est.) |