Editing Telecommunications in Tanzania (section)

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

* [[Calling code]]: +255<ref name=CIAWFB-Tanzania-2012/>
* [[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: 161,100 lines in use, 133rd in the world (2011).<ref name=CIAWFB-Tanzania-2012/>
* Mobile cellular: 27.2 million lines, 39th in the world (2012).<ref name=CIAWFB-Tanzania-2012/>
* Telephone system: telecommunications services are marginal; fixed-line telephone network inadequate with less than 1 connection per 100 persons; system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; [[Very Small Aperture Terminal]] (VSAT) system under construction; mobile-cellular service, aided by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly and in 2011 exceeded a subscriber base of 50 telephones per 100 persons; trunk service provided by open-wire, [[microwave radio relay]], [[tropospheric scatter]], and [[fiber-optic cable]]; some links being made digital (2010).<ref name=CIAWFB-Tanzania-2012/>
* [[List of international submarine communications cables|Communications cables]]: landing point for two fiber-optic cables (2010):
** [[SEACOM (African cable system)|SEACOM]] submarine and terrestrial high speed fibre-optic cable linking the countries of the east and west coasts of Africa to each other and on to Europe and India;<ref>[http://seacom.mu/network/ "SEACOM Network"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121201711/http://seacom.mu/network/ |date=2016-11-21 }}. Retrieved 23 January 2014.</ref> and 
** the [[EASSy]] fiber-optic submarine cable system linking [[East Africa]] with [[Europe]], and [[North America]].<ref name=CIAWFB-Tanzania-2012/>
* [[Communications satellite|Satellite earth stations]]: 2 [[Intelsat]] (1 [[Indian Ocean]], 1 [[Atlantic Ocean]]) (2010).<ref name=CIAWFB-Tanzania-2012/>

;Mobile phone companies
Some of the mobile phone companies operating in Tanzania with market share as of December 2022 as published by the [[Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority]] are:<ref name=Statistics-report>[https://www.tcra.go.tz/uploads/text-editor/files/2nd%20Quarter%20Communications%20Statistics%20Report%202022-2023%20(1)_1675441316.pdf "COMMUNICATIONS STATISTICS REPORT : Quarter ending December 2022"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608084535/https://www.tcra.go.tz/uploads/text-editor/files/2nd%20Quarter%20Communications%20Statistics%20Report%202022-2023%20(1)_1675441316.pdf |date=2023-06-08 }}, [[Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority]]. Retrieved 01 August 2023.</ref>
* [[Vodacom Tanzania]] 30%
* [[Airtel Africa|Airtel Tanzania]] 28%
* [[MIC Tanzania Limited]] (Tigo Tanzania) formerly Mobitel 26%
* [[Viettel Tanzania|Viettel Tanzania Limited]] (Halotel) 13%
* [[Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited]] 3%
* [[Smile Communications Tanzania]] 0%