Laos: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 962,497 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 14 (July 2015 est.) |
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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.) |