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; there is effective competition in the mobile market; these multi-service operators have focused investment on fiber networks and on expanding the reach of 5G (2023) |
| Domestic | Fixed-line roughly 10 per 100 and mobile-cellular nearly 115 per 100 subscriptions (2021) |
| 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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