North Korea: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 1.18 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 5 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 3.24 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 13 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: adequate system; nationwide fiber-optic network; mobile-cellular service expanding beyond Pyongyang domestic: fiber-optic links installed down to the county level; telephone directories unavailable; Orascom Telecom Holding, an Egyptian company that launched mobile service in late 2008 for the Pyongyang area and made considerable progress in expanding to other par international: country code - 850; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean, 1 Russian - Indian Ocean region); other international connections through Moscow and Beijing (2015) |
| Broadcast media | no independent media; radios and TVs are pre-tuned to government stations; 4 government-owned TV stations; the Korean Workers' Party owns and operates the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, and the state-run Voice of Korea operates an external broadcast (2008) |
| Internet country code | .kp |