Editing Telecommunications in Kenya (section)

==Telephones==
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{{See also |Telephone numbers in Kenya}}

'''[[Calling code]]:''' +254<ref name=CIAWFB-Kenya-Communications-2013/>

'''[[List of international call prefixes|International call prefix]]:''' 000<ref>[http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/sp/T-SP-E.164C-2011-PDF-E.pdf ''Dialing Procedures (International Prefix, National (Trunk) Prefix and National (Significant) Number) (in Accordance with ITY-T Recommendation E.164 (11/2010))''], Annex to ITU Operational Bulletin No. 994-15.XII.2011, International Telecommunication Union (ITU, Geneva), 15 December 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2014.</ref>

'''Main lines:'''
* 251,600 lines in use, 124th in the world (2012);<ref name=CIAWFB-Kenya-Communications-2013/>
* 320,000 lines in use (2007).

'''Mobile Cellular:'''
* 59.8 million lines as at September 2020 <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ca.go.ke/document/sector-statistics-report-q1-2020-2021/ | title=Sector Statistics Report Q1 2020-2021 }}</ref>

'''Telephone system:''' inadequate; fixed-line telephone system is small and inefficient; trunks are primarily [[microwave radio relay]]; business data commonly transferred by a [[very small aperture terminal]] (VSAT) system; sole fixed-line provider, Telkom Kenya, is slated for privatization; multiple providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a boom in mobile-cellular telephone usage with teledensity reaching 65 per 100 persons (2011).<ref name=CIAWFB-Kenya-Communications-2013/>

'''[[List of international submarine communications cables|Communications cables]]:''' landing point for the [[EASSy (cable system)|Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System]] (EASSy), [[TEAMS (cable system)|The East African Marine System]] (TEAMS), and [[SEACOM (African cable system)|SEACOM]] fiber-optic submarine cable systems (2011).<ref name=CIAWFB-Kenya-Communications-2013/>

'''[[Communications satellite|Satellite earth stations]]:''' 4 [[Intelsat]] (2011).<ref name=CIAWFB-Kenya-Communications-2013/>