Introduction
How is the communication system in DR Congo? Here, Broadcast media include state-owned TV broadcast station with near national coverage; more than a dozen privately owned TV stations - 2 with near national coverage; 2 state-owned radio stations are supplemented by more than 100 private radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are available. What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in DR Congo
| Internet country code | .cd |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 31,000 (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 0.03 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 21,102,720 (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 23.2% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | The telecom system remains one of the least developed in the region; the government can only loosely regulate the sector; the investment made in infrastructure is derived from donor countries or from the efforts of foreign (particularly Chinese) companies and banks; efforts have been made to improve the regulation of the telecom sector; the limited fixed-line infrastructure has become the principal providers of basic telecom services; the development of the DRC’s internet and broadband market has been held back by the poorly developed national and international infrastructure; the country was finally connected to international bandwidth through the WACS submarine cable in 2013; breakages in the WACS cable have exposed the vulnerability of international bandwidth, which is still limited; the Equiano submarine cable, and has also completed a 5,000km cable running through the DRC to link to cable systems landing in countries facing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; the first commercial LTE networks were launched in May 2018 soon after LTE licenses were issued; mobile operators are keen to develop mobile data services, capitalizing on the growth of smartphones usage; there has been some progress with updating technologies, most of the GSM network has been upgraded to 3G by 2021 (2022) |
| Domestic | Inadequate fixed-line infrastructure with fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscriptions over 49 per 100 persons (2021) |
| International | Country code - 243; ACE and WACS submarine cables to West and South Africa and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 0 (2021 est.) less than 1 |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | (2021 est.) less than 1 |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 49.844 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 50 (2022 est.) |
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