Thailand: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 5.309 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 84.797 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 125 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: high quality system, especially in urban areas like Bangkok domestic: fixed-line system provided by both a government-owned and commercial provider; wireless service expanding rapidly international: country code - 66; connected to major submarine cable systems providing links throughout Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Pacific Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | 6 terrestrial TV stations in Bangkok broadcast nationally via relay stations - 2 of the networks are owned by the military, the other 4 are government-owned or controlled, leased to private enterprise, and all are required to broadcast government-produced (2008) |
Internet country code | .th |
Internet users | total: 26.726 million percent of population: 39.3% (July 2015 est.) |