Editing Communications in Madagascar (section)

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

* [[Calling code]]: +261<ref name=CIAWFB-Madagascar-2014/>
* [[List of international call prefixes|International call prefix]]: 00<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: 143,700 lines in use, 138th in the world (2012),<ref name=CIAWFB-Madagascar-2014/> provided by Telma (Telecom Malagasy)<ref>[http://www.telma.mg TELMA] {{in lang|fr}}, Safidiko Malagasy (Telcom Malagasy).</ref>
* Mobile cellular: 8.6 million lines, 89th in the world (2012).<ref name=CIAWFB-Madagascar-2014/>
* Teledensity: 40 per 100 persons, combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular (2010).<ref name=CIAWFB-Madagascar-2014/>
* Telephone system: system is above average for the region, [[Antananarivo]]'s main telephone exchange modernized in the late 1990s, but the rest of the analogue-based telephone system is poorly developed; open-wire lines, coaxial cables, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter links (2010).<ref name=CIAWFB-Madagascar-2014/>
* [[List of international submarine communications cables|Communications cables]]: two; [[LION (cable system)|Lower Indian Ocean Network]] (LION), connecting [[Madagascar]], [[Réunion]], and [[Mauritius]];<ref name=LION>{{cite press release |url=http://lion.orange.com/media/lion_en/UPL821562760047316088_CP_cableLION_VA_.pdf |title=Orange inaugurates the new submarine cable LION in Reunion and continues its strategy to develop broadband internet in the Indian Ocean |publisher=Orange |date=11 December 2009 |access-date=2 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820032015/http://lion.orange.com/media/lion_en/UPL821562760047316088_CP_cableLION_VA_.pdf |archive-date=20 August 2011 }}</ref> [[EASSy (cable system)|Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System]] (EASSy) connecting [[Sudan]], [[Djibouti]], [[Somalia]], [[Kenya]], [[Comoros]], [[Tanzania]], [[Madagascar]], [[Mozambique]], and [[South Africa]].<ref name=eassyabout>{{cite web|title=About EASSY|url=http://www.eassy.org/about.html}}</ref>
* [[Communications satellite|Satellite earth stations]]: 1 [[Intelsat]] ([[Indian Ocean]]) and 1 [[Intersputnik]] ([[Atlantic Ocean]] region) (2010).<ref name=CIAWFB-Madagascar-2014/>