Senegal: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 300,219 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 2 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 14.959 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 107 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: good system with microwave radio relay, coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable in trunk system domestic: above-average urban system with a fiber-optic network; about two-thirds of all fixed-line connections are in Dakar where a call-center industry is emerging; expansion of fixed-line services in rural areas needed; mobile-cellular service is expanding rapid international: country code - 221; the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic cable provides connectivity to Europe and Asia while Atlantis-2 provides connectivity to South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-run Radiodiffusion Television Senegalaise (RTS) operates 2 TV stations; a few private TV subscription channels rebroadcast foreign channels without providing any local news or programs; RTS operates a national radio network and a number of regional (2007) |
| Internet country code | .sn |
| Internet users | total: 3.031 million percent of population: 21.7% (July 2015 est.) |