Telecommunications in Mauritania
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
Broadband Internet access
[edit]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.<ref>Balancing Act-Africa.com</ref>
The country only has around 1000 DSL subscribers, and 300,0000 internet subscribers in total, out of a population of 4.5 million. Monthly DSL charges were high, around US$30 per month, but have now dropped to MRO 10,000 (around US$20) per month.
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