Switzerland: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 4.14 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 51 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 11.7 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 144 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: highly developed telecommunications infrastructure with excellent domestic and international services domestic: ranked among leading countries for fixed-line teledensity and infrastructure; mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 145 per 100 persons; extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks international: country code - 41; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | the publicly owned radio and TV broadcaster, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG/SSR), operates 7 national TV networks, 3 broadcasting in German, 2 in Italian, and 2 in French; private commercial TV stations broadcast regionally and locally; TV broadcasts (2009) |
Internet country code | .ch |
Internet users | total: 7.145 million percent of population: 88% (July 2015 est.) |