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General assessment: effective system, extensive modernization from 1996-2000 following partial privatization in 1995
Domestic: major service provider is Cabo Verde Telecom (CVT), fiber-optic ring, completed in 2001, links all islands providing Internet access and ISDN services; cellular service introduced in 1998; broadband services launched in 2004
International: country code - 238, landing point for the Atlantis-2 fiber-optic transatlantic telephone cable that provides links to South America, Senegal, and Europe; HF radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2011)