Introduction
How is the communication system in Eswatini? Here, Broadcast media include 1 state-owned TV station; satellite dishes are able to access South African providers; state-owned radio network with 3 channels; 1 private radio station (2019). What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Eswatini
| Internet country code | .sz |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 12,000 (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 1 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 708,000 (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 59% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | Eswatini was one of the last countries in the world to open up its telecom market to competition; until 2011 the state-owned Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications also acted as the industry regulator and had a stake in the country’s sole mobile network; a new independent regulatory authority was established in late 2013 and has since embarked on significant changes to the sector; mobile market subscriptions have been affected by the common use among subscribers when they use SIM cards from different networks in order to access cheaper on-net calls; subscriber growth has slowed in recent years, but was expected to have reached 8% in 2021, as people adapted to the changing needs for connectivity caused by the pandemic; the internet sector has been open to competition with a small number of licensed ISPs; DSL services were introduced in 2008, development of the sector has been hampered by the limited fixed-line infrastructure and by a lack of competition in the access and backbone networks; Eswatini is landlocked and so depends on neighboring countries for international bandwidth; this has meant that access pricing is relatively high, and market subscriptions remains relatively low; prices have fallen recently in line with greater bandwidth availability resulting from several new submarine cable systems which have reached the region in recent years; in September 2020 a terrestrial cable linked Mozambique with Eswatini and South Africa (2022) |
| Domestic | Fixed-line stands at nearly 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 120 telephones per 100 persons (2021) |
| International | Country code - 268; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 38,000 (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 3 (2022 est.) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 1.468 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 122 (2022 est.) |
All Important Facts about Eswatini
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