Short facts about communications in Nepal

Telephones - main lines in use:

236,816 (January 2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

NA

Telephone system:

general assessment:  poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone network domestic:  NA international:  radiotelephone communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (January 2000)

Radios:

840,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998)

Televisions:

130,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.np

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

6 (2000)

Internet users:

35,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook