Latvia: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 395,602 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 20 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 2.579 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 130 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: recent efforts focused on bringing competition to the telecommunications sector; the number of fixed lines is decreasing as mobile-cellular telephone service expands domestic: number of telecommunications operators has grown rapidly since the fixed-line market opened to competition in 2003; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 150 per 100 persons international: country code - 371; the Latvian network is now connected via fiber-optic cable to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden (2015) |
Broadcast media | several national and regional commercial TV stations are foreign-owned, 2 national TV stations are publicly owned; system supplemented by privately owned regional and local TV stations; cable and satellite multi-channel TV services with domestic and forei (2007) |
Internet country code | .lv |
Internet users | total: 1.573 million percent of population: 79.2% (July 2015 est.) |