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Communications in Bangladesh

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Telephones - main lines in use: 1.187 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 34.37 million (2007)

Telephone system: general assessment: inadequate for a modern country; fixed-line telephone density remains less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has been increasing rapidly and is approaching 25 per 100 persons domestic: modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems include VHF and UHF microwave radio relay links, and some fiber-optic cable in cities international: country code - 880; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-4 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 6; international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries (2007)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 15, FM 13, shortwave 2 (2006)

Television broadcast stations: 15 (1999)

Internet country code: .bd

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 500,000 (2007)