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Total subscriptions: 21,081
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 3 (July 2016 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 176
Total: 698,373
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 93 (July 2016 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 165
General assessment: urban towns and district headquarters have telecommunications services
Domestic: domestic service inadequate, especially in rural areas; mobile-cellular service, begun in 2003, is now widely available; Internet services widely available
International: country code - 975; international telephone and telegraph service via landline and microwave relay through India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (2016)