Russia: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 36,524,978 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 26 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 227.288 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 160 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; progress made toward building the telecommunications infrast domestic: cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to Khabarovsk, and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services, both analog and digital, are available in man international: country code - 7; connected internationally by undersea fiber -optic cables; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems (2011) |
| Broadcast media | 13 national TV stations with the federal government owning 1 and holding a controlling interest in a second; state-owned Gazprom maintains a controlling interest in 2 of the national channels; government-affiliated Bank Rossiya owns controlling interest i (2016) |
| Internet country code | .ru; note - Russia also has responsibility for a legacy domain ".su" that was allocated to the Soviet Union and is being phased out |
| Internet users | total: 104.553 million percent of population: 73.4% (July 2015 est.) |