Tanzania Communications - 2006

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SOURCE: 2006 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

Telephones - main lines in use:
149,100 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.64 million (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; very small aperture terminal (VSAT) 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: country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (1999)

Internet country code:
.tz

Internet hosts:
9,241 (2005)

Internet users:
333,000 (2005)

NOTE: The information regarding Tanzania on this page is re-published from the 2006 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Tanzania Communications 2006 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Tanzania Communications 2006 should be addressed to the CIA.