Uganda: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 328,811 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 20.22 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 54 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: mobile cellular service is increasing rapidly, but the number of main lines is still deficient; work underway on a national backbone information and communications technology infrastructure; international phone networks and Internet connectivity provided domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations, fixed-line and mobile-cellular systems for short-range traffic; mobile-cellular teledensity about 55 per 100 persons international: country code - 256; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog and digital links to Kenya and Tanzania (2015) |
| Broadcast media | public broadcaster, Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), operates radio and TV networks; Uganda first began licensing privately owned stations in the 1990s; by 2007, there were nearly 150 radio and 35 TV stations, mostly based in and around Kampala; tra (2007) |
| Internet country code | .ug |
| Internet users | total: 7.131 million percent of population: 19.2% (July 2015 est.) |