general assessment: good system; about 6
telephones for each 100 persons domestic: good urban services; fair rural service; microwave
radio relay links major towns; connections to other populated places
are by open wire; 100% digital international: country code - 264; fiber-optic cable to South
Africa, microwave radio relay link to Botswana, direct links to other
neighboring countries; connected to Africa ONE and South African Far
East (SAFE) submarine cables through South Africa; satellite earth
stations - 4 Intelsat (2002)
Radio broadcast
stations:
AM 2, FM 39, shortwave 4 (2001)
Radios:
232,000 (1997)
Television broadcast
stations:
8 (plus about 20 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
60,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.na
Internet hosts:
3,164 (2003)
Internet Service
Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)
Internet users:
65,000 (2003)
Transportation
Namibia
Railways:
total: 2,382 km narrow gauge: 2,382 km 1.067-m gauge (2003)
Highways:
total: 66,467 km paved: 9,172 km unpaved: 57,285 km (2000)
Ports and harbors:
Luderitz, Walvis Bay
Merchant marine:
none
Airports:
136 (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved
runways:
total: 21 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 13 914 to 1,523 m: 4 (2003 est.)
Airports - with
unpaved runways:
total: 115 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 22 914 to 1,523 m: 71 under 914 m: 20 (2003 est.)