Sierra Leone Telecommunications Profile 2012

Telephones - main lines in use

14,000 (2010)

Telephones - mobile cellular

2 million (2010)

Telephone system

general assessment: marginal telephone service with poor infrastructure
domestic: the national microwave radio relay trunk system connects Freetown to Bo and Kenema; while mobile-cellular service is growing rapidly from a small base, service area coverage remains limited
international: country code - 232; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2008)

Broadcast media

1 government-owned TV station; 1 private TV station began operating in 2005; a pay-per-view TV service began operations in late 2007; 1 government-owned national radio broadcast station; about two dozen private radio stations primarily clustered in major cities; transmissions of several international broadcasters are available (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 1, FM 9, shortwave 1 (2001)

Television broadcast stations

2 (1999)

Internet country code

.sl

Internet hosts

281 (2010)

Internet users

14,900 (2009)