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Communications

Rwanda

Telephones - main lines in use:

23,200 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

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.)

Source: CIA Fact Book

 

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