Short facts about communications in Nigeria

Telephones - main lines in use:

500,000 (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

26,700 (1997)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  an inadequate system, further limited by poor maintenance; major expansion is required and a start has been made domestic:  intercity traffic is carried by coaxial cable, microwave radio relay, a domestic communications satellite system with 19 earth stations, and a coastal submarine cable; mobile cellular facilities and the Internet are available international:  satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); coaxial submarine cable SAFE (South African Far East)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 82, FM 35, shortwave 11 (1998)

Radios:

23.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

2 government-controlled; note - in addition, in 1993, 14 licenses to operate private television stations were granted (1999)

Televisions:

6.9 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.ng

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

11 (2000)

Internet users:

100,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook