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Total subscriptions: 881,084
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (July 2015 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 83
Total: 10.163 million
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 94 (July 2015 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 84
General assessment: Bolivian National Telecommunications Company was privatized in 1995 but re-nationalized in 2007; the primary trunk system is being expanded and employs digital microwave radio relay; some areas are served by fiber-optic cable; system operations, reliability, and coverage have steadily improved
Domestic: most telephones are concentrated in La Paz, Santa Cruz, and other capital cities; mobile-cellular telephone use expanding rapidly and, in 2015, teledensity reached about 95 per 100 persons
International: country code - 591; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015)