Bolivia: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 881,084 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 10.163 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 94 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: Bolivian National Telecommunications Company was privatized in 1995 but re-nationalized in 2007; the primary trunk system is being expanded and employs digital microwave radio relay; some areas are served by fiber-optic cable; system operations, reliabili domestic: most telephones are concentrated in La Paz, Santa Cruz, and other capital cities; mobile-cellular telephone use expanding rapidly and, in 2015, teledensity reached about 95 per 100 persons international: country code - 591; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | large number of radio and TV stations broadcasting with private media outlets dominating; state-owned and private radio and TV stations generally operating freely, although both pro-government and anti-government groups have attacked media outlets in resp (2010) |
| Internet country code | .bo |
| Internet users | total: 4.871 million percent of population: 45.1% (July 2015 est.) |