Cambodia’s young, tech-savvy population combined
with ICT infrastructure supports FoE despite ongoing
efforts by government to stifle voices critical of the
ruling party. The country’s information ecosystem is
dominated by a partisan press and a broadcast media
owned and/or controlled by the ruling Cambodia
People’s Party. Yet the saturated mobile phone market
has opened opportunities for citizens to receive and
share information. Cambodia leapfrogged the era of
traditional landlines to have one of the most robust
telecommunications sectors in the region, with the
highest number of mobile phone users across ASEAN
(113% penetration as of June 2013).
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Cambodia has
more SIM cards than people, with more than 19
million SIM cards issued as of 2013