Cameroon - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Cameroon was 964,378 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,156,230 in 2014 and a minimum value of 12,989 in 1975.

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
1975 12,989
1976 13,529
1977 14,112
1978 15,152
1979 16,576
1980 17,204
1981 18,304
1982 21,316
1983 25,086
1984 28,115
1985 29,861
1986 32,400
1987 35,000
1988 36,000
1989 38,468
1990 40,218
1991 41,933
1992 54,672
1993 57,168
1994 58,200
1995 65,597
1996 70,558
1997 75,200
1998 93,920
1999 94,599
2000 95,000
2001 106,287
2002 110,881
2003 97,393
2004 99,439
2005 100,331
2006 130,694
2007 188,874
2008 255,306
2009 435,413
2010 539,504
2011 668,965
2012 737,445
2013 799,016
2014 1,156,230
2015 1,050,281
2016 1,051,073
2017 885,762
2018 902,253
2019 856,411
2020 964,378

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Cameroon was 3.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.10 in 2014 and a minimum value of 0.17 in 1975.

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
1975 0.17
1976 0.18
1977 0.18
1978 0.19
1979 0.20
1980 0.20
1981 0.21
1982 0.23
1983 0.27
1984 0.29
1985 0.30
1986 0.31
1987 0.33
1988 0.33
1989 0.34
1990 0.34
1991 0.35
1992 0.44
1993 0.44
1994 0.44
1995 0.48
1996 0.51
1997 0.52
1998 0.64
1999 0.63
2000 0.61
2001 0.67
2002 0.68
2003 0.58
2004 0.58
2005 0.57
2006 0.72
2007 1.01
2008 1.33
2009 2.20
2010 2.65
2011 3.20
2012 3.43
2013 3.62
2014 5.10
2015 4.51
2016 4.39
2017 3.61
2018 3.58
2019 3.31
2020 3.63

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications