Nepal: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 846,940 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 3 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 27.516 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 87 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile-cellular telephone network domestic: mobile-cellular telephone subscribership base is increasing with roughly 90% of the population living in areas covered by mobile carriers international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications; microwave and fiber landlines to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state operates 2 TV stations, as well as national and regional radio stations; roughly 30 independent TV channels are registered with only about half in regular operation; nearly 400 FM radio stations are licensed with roughly 300 operational (2007) |
| Internet country code | .np |
| Internet users | total: 5.547 million percent of population: 17.6% (July 2015 est.) |