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Total subscriptions: 53,586 (2021 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 9 (2021 est.)
Total subscriptions: 590,171 (2021 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 100 (2021 est.)
General assessment: LTE reaches almost 40% of the population; regulator awards commercial 4G licenses and starts 5G pilot; govt. extends USD 25 million for submarine fiber-optic cable project linking Africa to Portugal and Brazil (2020)
Domestic: 9 per 100 fixed-line teledensity and nearly 100 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)
International: Country code - 238; landing points for the Atlantis-2, EllaLink, Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 1, 2, 3 and WACS fiber-optic transatlantic telephone cable that provides links to South America, Africa, and Europe; HF radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)