Belgium: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 4,488,711 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 40 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 12.938 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 114 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: highly developed, technologically advanced, and completely automated domestic and international telephone and telegraph facilities domestic: nationwide mobile-cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network international: country code - 32; landing point for a number of submarine cables that provide links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat - 3) (2015) |
Broadcast media | a segmented market with the three major communities (Flemish, French, and German-speaking) each having responsibility for their own broadcast media; multiple TV channels exist for each community; additionally, in excess of 90% of households are connected (2007) |
Internet country code | .be |
Internet users | total: 9.631 million percent of population: 85% (July 2015 est.) |