!!!Uzbekistan: Communication ||Telephones - fixed lines|''total subscriptions'': 2,507,711 \\ ''subscriptions per 100 inhabitants'': 9 (July 2015 est.) \\ ||Telephones - mobile cellular|''total'': 21.783 million \\ ''subscriptions per 100 inhabitants'': 75 (July 2015 est.) \\ ||Telephone system|''general assessment'': digital exchanges in large cities and in rural areas \\ ''domestic'': the state-owned telecommunications company, Uzbektelecom, owner of the fixed-line telecommunications system, has used loans from the Japanese government and the China Development Bank to upgrade fixed-line services including conversion to digital exchange \\ ''international'': country code - 998; linked by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch; the country also has a link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic (2015) \\ ||Broadcast media|government controls media; 14 state-owned broadcasters - 10 TV and 4 radio - provide service to virtually the entire country; about 20 privately owned TV stations, overseen by local officials, broadcast to local markets; privately owned TV stations are re ||Internet country code|.uz ||Internet users|''total'': 12.498 million \\ ''percent of population'': 42.8% (July 2015 est.) \\