Samoa - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Samoa was 6,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19,500 in 2005 and a minimum value of 3,472 in 1981.

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
1981 3,472
1982 3,550
1983 3,600
1984 3,650
1985 3,700
1986 3,750
1987 3,800
1988 3,950
1989 4,000
1990 4,100
1991 4,167
1992 6,500
1993 7,100
1994 7,400
1995 7,800
1996 8,251
1997 8,451
1998 8,480
1999 8,500
2000 8,520
2001 9,670
2002 11,786
2003 13,287
2004 16,394
2005 19,500
2010 8,000
2012 8,270
2013 8,382
2014 11,778
2015 11,453
2016 9,679
2017 8,454
2019 6,000
2020 6,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Samoa was 3.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.85 in 2005 and a minimum value of 2.22 in 1981.

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
1981 2.22
1982 2.26
1983 2.27
1984 2.29
1985 2.31
1986 2.34
1987 2.36
1988 2.45
1989 2.47
1990 2.52
1991 2.54
1992 3.93
1993 4.25
1994 4.39
1995 4.59
1996 4.82
1997 4.91
1998 4.91
1999 4.90
2000 4.88
2001 5.51
2002 6.68
2003 7.49
2004 9.18
2005 10.85
2010 4.30
2012 4.37
2013 4.39
2014 6.13
2015 5.92
2016 4.98
2017 4.33
2019 3.04
2020 3.02

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications