Somalia: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 51,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: less than 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 5.836 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 55 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: the public telecommunications system was almost completely destroyed or dismantled during the civil war; private companies offer limited local fixed-line service, and private wireless companies offer service in most major cities, while charging the lowest domestic: local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers with one company beginning to provide 3G services in late 2012 international: country code - 252; Mogadishu is a landing point for the EASSy fiber-optic submarine cable system linking East Africa with Europe and North America (2012) |
Broadcast media | 2 private TV stations rebroadcast Al-Jazeera and CNN; Somaliland has 1 government-operated TV station and Puntland has 1 private TV station; the transitional government operates Radio Mogadishu; 1 SW and roughly 10 private FM radio stations broadcast in M (2007) |
Internet country code | .so |
Internet users | total: 187,000 percent of population: 1.8% (July 2015 est.) |