Short facts about communications in Cote D'Ivoire

Telephones - main lines in use:

219,283 (31 December 1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

322,500 (May 2000)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  well developed by African standards but operating well below capacity domestic:  open-wire lines and microwave radio relay; 90% digitalized international:  satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); 2 coaxial submarine cables (June 1999)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 2, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios:

2.26 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

14 (1999)

Televisions:

900,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ci

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

5 (2001)

Internet users:

20,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook