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Average cost of local call	0.08		[71st of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature	22		[60th of 77]
DVD region	5		[60th of 171]
Households with television > %	8.97 %		[124th of 160]
Mobile phone subscribers	1,094,115		[97th of 198]
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	133,000		[58th of 90]
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	5		[71st of 106]
Number of PCs	27		[145th of 169]
Phone subscribers	12.31		[163rd of 178]
Radio broadcast stations	AM 21, FM 6, shortwave 7
Radio receivers	630,000		[126th of 188]
Radios	815,000		[120th of 221]
Telephone system > Domestic state-owned telecom had monopoly for fixed-lines until 2005; demand outstripped capacity, prices were high, and services poor; Telecom Namibia, through an Angolan company, became the first private licensed operator in Angola's fixed-line telephone network; Angola Telecom established mobile-cellular service in Luanda in 1993 and the network has been extended to larger towns; a privately-owned, mobile-cellular service provider began operations in 2001
Telephone system > International country code - 244; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 29
Telephone system > Regulation	1999
Telephones > Main lines in use	98,200		[112nd of 174]
Telephones > Mobile cellular	3,307,000		[81st of 186]
Television broadcast stations	6		[4th of 89]
Television receivers	150,000		[122nd of 185]
Televisions	196,000		[122nd of 215]

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