Yemen: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 1.195 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 4 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 17.359 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 65 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter, GSM and CDMA mobile-cellular telephone systems; fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains low by regional standards international: country code - 967; landing point for the international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave (2010) |
Broadcast media | state-run TV with 2 stations; state-run radio with 2 national radio stations and 5 local stations; stations from Oman and Saudi Arabia can be accessed (2007) |
Internet country code | .ye |
Internet users | total: 6.711 million percent of population: 25.1% (July 2015 est.) |