Short facts about communications in Yemen

Telephones - main lines in use:

291,359 (1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

32,042 (2000)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network domestic:  the national network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM cellular mobile telephone systems international:  satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:

1.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:

470,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ye

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

12,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook