Kazakhstan: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 4,143,100 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 23 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 31.39 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 173 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: inherited an outdated telecommunications network from the Soviet era requiring modernization domestic: intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; number of fixed-line connections is inadequate; mobile-cellular usage has increased rapidly and the subscriber base now exceeds 170 per 100 persons international: country code - 7; international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay and with other countries by satellite and by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations - 2 Int (2015) |
Broadcast media | state owns nearly all radio and TV transmission facilities and operates national TV and radio networks; nearly all nationwide TV networks are wholly or partly owned by the government; some former state-owned media outlets have been privatized; households (2015) |
Internet country code | .kz |
Internet users | total: 13.23 million percent of population: 72.9% (July 2015 est.) |