Rwanda Communications - 2004

Telephones - main lines in use:
23,200 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
110,800
note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several prefecture capitals (2002)

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)

Television broadcast stations:
NA

Internet country code:
.rw

Internet hosts:
1,233 (2002)