Eritrea - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Eritrea was 66,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66,170 in 2017 and a minimum value of 13,011 in 1992.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

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Year Value
1992 13,011
1993 13,335
1994 15,192
1995 17,540
1996 18,919
1997 21,979
1998 24,308
1999 27,375
2000 30,554
2001 31,249
2002 35,897
2003 38,078
2004 39,271
2005 37,712
2006 37,541
2007 37,412
2008 40,415
2009 48,473
2010 54,232
2011 58,473
2012 60,090
2013 61,935
2014 64,000
2015 66,000
2016 66,086
2017 66,170
2019 66,000
2020 66,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Eritrea was 1.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.97 in 2015 and a minimum value of 0.58 in 1992.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1992 0.58
1993 0.60
1994 0.68
1995 0.80
1996 0.86
1997 1.00
1998 1.10
1999 1.22
2000 1.33
2001 1.32
2002 1.45
2003 1.46
2004 1.44
2005 1.33
2006 1.29
2007 1.25
2008 1.32
2009 1.55
2010 1.71
2011 1.82
2012 1.85
2013 1.89
2014 1.93
2015 1.97
2016 1.96
2017 1.94
2019 1.89
2020 1.86

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications