Short facts about communications in Somalia

Telephones - main lines in use:

NA

Telephones - mobile cellular:

NA

Telephone system:

general assessment:  the public telecommunications system was completely destroyed or dismantled by the civil war factions; all relief organizations depend on their own private systems domestic:  recently, local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers international:  international connections are available from Mogadishu by satellite

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 0, FM 0, shortwave 4 (1988)

Radios:

470,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (1997)

Televisions:

135,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.so

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

200 (2000)

Source: World Factbook