Telephones - main lines in use: 300,500 (2024) Telephones - mobile cellular: 200,000 (2003) Telephone system: general assessment: limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations (improvements being made) domestic: mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals.
international: country code +222; satellite earth stations - 9 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 20 Arabsat.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 14, shortwave 1 (2001) Radios: 410,000 (2001) Television broadcast stations: 20 (2024) Televisions: 708,000 (2001) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 26 (2014) Internet users: 250,000 (2002) Country code (Top level domain): .mr Mauritania has three operators, the original monopoly, Mauritel (now owned by Vivendi's Maroc Telecom), Mattel (owned by Tunisie Telecom) and Chinguitel, which will start operations in December 2006.
[1] The country only has around 1000 DSL subscribers, and 300,0000 internet subscribers in total, out of a population of 4.5 million.
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