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Total subscriptions: 556,112
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (2017 est.)
Total subscriptions: 47,951,228
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 87 (2017 est.)
General assessment: Remains one of the last underdeveloped telecoms markets in Asia; the mobile market has experienced rapid growth from 2013 to 2017, in 2014 foreign competition was allowed to compete in the market (2018)
Domestic: Fixed-line is less than 1 per 100, while mobile-cellular is 87 per 100 and shows great potential for the future (2018)
International: Country code - 95; landing points for the SeaMeWe-3, SeaMeWe-5, AAE-1 and Singapore-Myanmar optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2, Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and ShinSat (2019)