Short facts about communications in Uganda

Telephones - main lines in use:

50,074; however, 80,868 main lines were installed (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

9,000 (1998)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  seriously inadequate; two cellular systems have been introduced, but a sharp increase in the number of main lines is essential; e-mail and Internet services are available domestic:  intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile cellular systems for short range traffic international:  satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog links to Kenya and Tanzania

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 19, FM 4, shortwave 5 (1998)

Radios:

2.6 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

8 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)

Televisions:

315,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ug

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2000)

Internet users:

25,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook