Tanzania Telecommunications Profile 2003

Telephones - main lines in use

127,000 (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular

30,000 (1999)

Telephone system

general assessment: fair system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; VSAT (very small aperture terminal) 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: 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

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Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

6 (2000)

Internet users

300,000 (2002)