Bhutan: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 21,811 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 3 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 676,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 91 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: urban towns and district headquarters have telecommunications services domestic: domestic service inadequate, especially in rural areas; mobile-cellular service, begun in 2003, is now widely available international: country code - 975; international telephone and telegraph service via landline and microwave relay through India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-owned TV station established in 1999; cable TV service offers dozens of Indian and other international channels; first radio station, privately launched in 1973, is now state-owned; 5 private radio stations are currently broadcasting (2012) |
| Internet country code | .bt |
| Internet users | total: 295,000 percent of population: 39.8% (July 2015 est.) |