Nicaragua: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 354,017 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 6 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 7.264 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 123 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: system being upgraded by foreign investment; nearly all installed telecommunications capacity now uses digital technology, owing to investments since privatization of the formerly state-owned telecommunications company domestic: since privatization, access to fixed-line and mobile-cellular services has improved; fixed-line teledensity roughly 6 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has increased to over 120 per 100 persons international: country code - 505; the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic submarine cable provides connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) a (2015) |
| Broadcast media | multiple terrestrial TV stations, supplemented by cable TV in most urban areas; nearly all are government-owned or affiliated; more than 300 radio stations, both government-affiliated and privately owned (2016) |
| Internet country code | .ni |
| Internet users | total: 1.164 million percent of population: 19.7% (July 2015 est.) |