Azerbaijan: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 1,796,027 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 18 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 10.697 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 109 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: requires considerable expansion and modernization; fixed-line telephone and a broad range of other telecom services are controlled by a state-owned telecommunications monopoly and growth has been stagnant; more competition exists in the mobile-cellular ma domestic: teledensity of 18 fixed lines per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity has increased to 109 telephones per 100 persons; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Naxcivan (Nakhichevan) international: country code - 994; the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic link transits Azerbaijan providing international connectivity to neighboring countries; the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; satellite earth stations - 2 (2015) |
| Broadcast media | 3 state-run and 1 public TV channels; 4 domestic commercial TV stations and about 15 regional TV stations; cable TV services are available in Baku; 1 state-run and 1 public radio network operating; a small number of private commercial radio stations broad (2010) |
| Internet country code | .az |
| Internet users | total: 7.531 million percent of population: 77% (July 2015 est.) |