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Total subscriptions: 8.46 million (2017 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 36 (2017 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 20
Total subscriptions: 27.553 million (2017 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 119 (2017 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 47
General assessment: Excellent domestic and international service; domestic satellite system; significant use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile telephones; 5G technologies in preparation and anticipation for 2020 (2017)
Domestic: More subscribers to mobile services than there are people; 90% of all mobile device sales are now smartphones, growth in mobile traffic brisk; 36 per 100 fixed-line, 119 per 100 mobile-cellular (2017)
International: Country code - 61; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Southern Cross fiber-optic submarine cable provides links to NZ and the US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean), 2 Inmarsat, 2 Globalstar, 5 other (2015)