Calling code: +261[1] International call prefix: 00[5] Main lines: 143,700 lines in use, 138th in the world (2012),[4] provided by Telma (Telecom Malagasy)[6] Mobile cellular: 8.6 million lines, 89th in the world (2012).[4] Teledensity: 40 per 100 persons, combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular (2010).[4] Telephone system: system is above average for the region, Antananarivo's main telephone exchange modernized in the late 1990s, but the rest of the analogue-based telephone system is poorly developed; open-wire lines, coaxial cables, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter links (2010).[4] Communications cables: two; Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION), connecting Madagascar, Réunion, and Mauritius;[7] Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) connecting Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Comoros, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mozambique, and South Africa.[8] Satellite earth stations: 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) (2010).[4]