!!!Laos: Communication
||Telephones - fixed lines|''total subscriptions'': 962,497 \\ ''subscriptions per 100 inhabitants'': 14 (July 2015 est.) \\ 
||Telephones - mobile cellular|''total'': 3.727 million \\ ''subscriptions per 100 inhabitants'': 54 (July 2015 est.) \\ 
||Telephone system|''general assessment'': service to public is generally improving; the government relies on a radiotelephone network to communicate with remote areas \\ ''domestic'': mobile cellular usage has slowed as the regulator imposed a strict policy on pricing and competition is effectively discouraged; network performance has suffered because of insufficient maintenance and upgrades \\ ''international'': country code - 856; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and a second to be developed by China (2015) \\ 
||Broadcast media|6 TV stations operating out of Vientiane - 3 government-operated and the others commercial; 17 provincial stations operating with nearly all programming relayed via satellite from the government-operated stations in Vientiane; Chinese and Vietnamese progr (2012)
||Internet country code|.la
||Internet users|''total'': 1.258 million \\ ''percent of population'': 18.2% (July 2015 est.) \\