134,000 note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and
several prefecture capitals (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telephone system
primarily serves business and government domestic: the capital, Kigali, is connected to the centers of
the prefectures by microwave radio relay and, recently, by cellular
telephone service; much of the network depends on wire and HF
radiotelephone international: country code - 250; international connections
employ microwave radio relay to neighboring countries and satellite
communications to more distant countries; satellite earth stations - 1
Intelsat (Indian Ocean) in Kigali (includes telex and telefax service)
Radio broadcast
stations:
AM 0, FM 3 (two main FM programs are broadcast
through a system of repeaters and the third FM program is a 24 hour
BBC program), shortwave 1 (2002)
Radios:
601,000 (1997)
Television broadcast
stations:
NA
Televisions:
NA; probably less than 1,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.rw
Internet hosts:
1,495 (2003)
Internet Service
Providers (ISPs):
2 (2002)
Internet users:
25,000 (2002)
Transportation
Rwanda
Highways:
total: 12,000 km paved: 996 km unpaved: 11,004 km (1999 est.)
Waterways:
Lac Kivu navigable by shallow-draft barges and
native craft (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Cyangugu, Gisenyi, Kibuye
Airports:
9 (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved
runways:
total: 4 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 1 (2003 est.)
Airports - with
unpaved runways:
total: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 3 (2003 est.)