Fiji: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 72,565 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 966,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 106 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: modern local, interisland, and international (wire/radio integrated) public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph, and teleprinter facilities; regional radio communications center; subject to occasional devastating cyclones domestic: telephone or radio telephone links to almost all inhabited islands; most towns and large villages have automatic telephone exchanges and direct dialing; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 115 per 100 persons international: country code - 679; access to important cable links between US and Canada, as well as between NZ and Australia; satellite earth stations - 2 Inmarsat (Pacific Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | Fiji TV, a publicly traded company, operates a free-to-air channel, as well as Sky Fiji and Sky Pacific multi-channel pay-TV services; state-owned commercial company, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Ltd, operates 6 radio stations - 2 public broadcasters an (2009) |
Internet country code | .fj |
Internet users | total: 421,000 percent of population: 46.3% (July 2015 est.) |