Short facts about communications in Sierra Leone

Telephones - main lines in use:

17,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

650 (1999)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  marginal telephone and telegraph service domestic:  national microwave radio relay trunk system, made unserviceable by military activities, is now operating from Freetown to Bo and Kenema (April 2001) international:  satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 1, FM 9, shortwave 1 (1999)

Radios:

1.12 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

2 (1999)

Televisions:

53,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.sl

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

2,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook