Short facts about communications in Tanzania

Telephones - main lines in use:

127,000 (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

30,000 (1999)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  fair system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; VSAT (very small aperture terminal) system under construction domestic:  trunk service provided by open wire, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable; some links being made digital international:  satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:

8.8 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

3 (1999)

Televisions:

103,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.tz

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

6 (2000)

Internet users:

25,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook