Cyprus: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 323,707 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 27 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 1.111 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 93 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: excellent in both area under government control and area administered by Turkish Cypriots domestic: open-wire, fiber-optic cable, and microwave radio relay international: country code - 357 (area administered by Turkish Cypriots uses the country code of Turkey - 90); a number of submarine cables, including the SEA-ME-WE-3, combine to provide connectivity to Western Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; tropospheric scatter; s |
Broadcast media | mixture of state and privately run TV and radio services; the public broadcaster operates 2 TV channels and 4 radio stations; 6 private TV broadcasters, satellite and cable TV services including telecasts from Greece and Turkey, and a number of private ra (2007) |
Internet country code | .cy |
Internet users | total: 853,000 percent of population: 71.7% (July 2015 est.) |