Most fixed line telephones are located in Asmara, the capital and largest city.
[2] On 13 April 2006, Eritrea received a soft loan from the government of China to upgrade their communication infrastructure.
All major cities are connected to the mobile telephone system in Eritrea except for Assab, as of 2023.
Eritrea has not set up a widespread automatic Internet filtering system, but it does not hesitate to order blocking of several diaspora websites critical of the regime.
Access to these sites is blocked by two of the Internet service providers, Erson and Ewan, as are pornographic websites[dubious – discuss]and YouTube.