Short facts about communications in Marshall Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:

3,000 (1996)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

365 (1996)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  telex services domestic:  Majuro Atoll and Ebeye and Kwajalein islands have regular, seven-digit, direct-dial telephones; other islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone (used mostly for government purposes) international:  satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); US Government satellite communications system on Kwajalein

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:

NA

Television broadcast stations:

3 (of which two are US military stations) (1997)

Televisions:

NA

Internet country code:

.mh

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

500 (2000)

Source: World Factbook