Short facts about communications in Guyana

Telephones - main lines in use:

70,000 (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

6,100 (2000)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  fair system for long-distance calling domestic:  microwave radio relay network for trunk lines international:  tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:

420,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

3 (one public station; two private stations which relay US satellite services) (1997)

Televisions:

46,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.gy

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

3 (2000)

Internet users:

3,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook