Macau: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total: 146,138 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 25 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 1.896 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 320 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: fairly modern communication facilities maintained for domestic and international services domestic: termination of monopoly over mobile-cellular telephone services in 2001 spurred sharp increase in subscriptions with mobile-cellular teledensity exceeding 300 per 100 persons; fixed-line subscribership appears to have peaked and is now in decline international: country code - 853; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; HF radiotelephone communication facility; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | local government dominates broadcast media; 2 television stations operated by the government with one broadcasting in Portuguese and the other in Cantonese and Mandarin; 1 cable TV and 4 satellite TV services available; 3 radio stations broadcasting, of w (2015) |
Internet country code | .mo |
Internet users | total: 460,000 percent of population: 77.6% (July 2015 est.) |