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Total subscriptions: 122,566
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: less than 1 (2019 est.)
Total subscriptions: 14,645,106
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 46.6 (2019 est.)
General assessment: Progress in opening up the telecom sector to new competitors, while still retaining a 45% govt. portion of the share; slow progress in LTE network development, with only about 12% of the country covered by network infrastructure; regulator offers 4th service license to be issued for competition, cracks down on informal SIM card sales, and auctions 800MHz spectrum; M-commerce services launch pending (2020)
Domestic: Only about one fixed-line per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity about 47 telephones per 100 persons (2019)
International: Country code - 244; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, WACS, ACE and SACS fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to other countries in west Africa, Brazil, Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 29, Angosat-2 satellite expected by 2021 (2019)