Tanzania: Communications

Telephones - main lines in use

161,600 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular

670,000 (2002)

Telephone system

general assessment: fair system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; VSAT (very small aperture terminal) system under construction
domestic: trunk service provided by open-wire, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable; some links being made digital
international: country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios

8.8 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

3 (1999)

Televisions

103,000 (1997)

Internet country code

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Internet hosts

1,731 (2002)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

6 (2000)

Internet users

80,000 (2002)