Introduction
How is the communication system in Senegal? Here, Broadcast media include Senegal’s media environment includes over 25 private television stations, hundreds of radio stations, and more than 45 newspapers. State-run Radiodiffusion Television Senegalaise (RTS) broadcasts from five cities in Senegal and a wide range of independent TV programming is available via satellite; transmissions of several international broadcasters are accessible on FM in Dakar. What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Senegal
| Internet country code | .sn |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 153,813 (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 1 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 9.86 million (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 58% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | Senegal’s telecom market continues to show steady growth in all sectors; this has been supported by the particular demands made on consumers during the pandemic, which resulted in a particularly strong increase in the number of subscribers; the mobile subscriber base increased 6.7% in 2020, year-on-year, and by 4.1% in 2021, while the number of fixed broadband subscribers increased 17.5% year-on-year in 2021; mobile internet platforms account for the vast majority of all internet accesses; quality of service issues continue to plague the market, with the regulator periodically issuing fines to the market players (2022) |
| Domestic | Fixed-line is 2 per 100 and mobile-cellular 118 per 100 persons (2021) |
| International | Country code - 221; landing points for the ACE, Atlantis-2, MainOne and SAT-3/WASC submarine cables providing connectivity from South Africa, numerous western African countries, Europe and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 297,000 (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 2 (2022 est.) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 20.855 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 120 (2022 est.) |
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