Introduction
How is the communication system in Latvia? Here, Broadcast media include several national and regional commercial TV stations are foreign-owned, 2 national TV stations are publicly owned; system supplemented by privately owned regional and local TV stations; cable and satellite multi-channel TV services with domestic and foreign broadcasts available; publicly owned broadcaster operates 4 radio networks with dozens of stations throughout the country; dozens of private broadcasters also operate radio stations. What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Latvia
Internet country code .lv
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
Total 490,569 (2020 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 26 (2020 est.)
Internet users
Total 1.729 million (2021 est.)
Percent of population 91% (2021 est.)
Telecommunication systems
General assessment

the telecom market continues to benefit from investment and from regulatory measures aimed at developing 5G and fiber-based infrastructure; the mobile market is dominated by three operators and there is effective competition between them, with the smallest among them having almost a quarter of the market by subscribers; these multi-service operators have focused investment on fiber networks and on expanding the reach of 5G; mobile network capacity has been improved since 2022 following the auction of spectrum in the 700MHz and 1.5GHz bands; operators have entered into agreements with neighboring Estonia and Lithuania to coordinate the use of spectrum for 5G in border areas, improving coverage to end-users without interference; in the fixed-line broadband sector, the country is ranked among the highest in Europe for fiber coverage; it has the second highest rural FttP coverage after Denmark; with this infrastructure in place, the country has also developed a sophisticated digital economy, with e-commerce and e-government services widely available

(2024)
Domestic Fixed-line 9 per 100 and mobile-cellular nearly 117 per 100 subscriptions (2022)
International Country code - 371; the Latvian network is now connected via fiber-optic cable to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden
Telephones - fixed lines
Total subscriptions 174,000 (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 9 (2022 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular
Total subscriptions 2.167 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 117 (2022 est.)
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Latvia is found in Northern Europe