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Total subscriptions: 74,213 (July 2016 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 17 (July 2016 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 148
Total subscriptions: 544,732 (2017 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 123 (2017 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 170
General assessment: Service throughout the country is good; international service is good to Southeast Asia, Middle East, Western Europe, and the US; while fixed-line is slowing down, mobile broadband has taken over in the advancement in the telecoms access market; broadband penetration slow to moderate growth predicted over the next five years to 2023 (2017)
Domestic: Every service available; 17 per 100 fixed-line, 123 per 100 mobile-cellular (2017)
International: Country code - 673; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Asia-America Gateway submarine cable network provides new links to Asia and the US; the South-East Asia Japan Cable System linking Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Philipines and Thailand; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) (2017)