Sudan: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 118,954 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: less than 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 27.939 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 77 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: well-equipped system by regional standards and being upgraded; cellular communications started in 1996 and have expanded substantially with wide coverage of most major cities domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, fiber optic, radiotelephone communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations international: country code - 249; linked to the EASSy and FLAG fiber-optic submarine cable systems; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Arabsat (2010) |
Broadcast media | the Sudanese Government directly controls TV and radio, requiring that both media reflect government policies; TV has a permanent military censor; a private radio station is in operation (2007) |
Internet country code | .sd |
Internet users | total: 9.61 million percent of population: 26.6% (July 2015 est.) |