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Communications in Uganda

Ugandan Communications

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Telephones - main lines in use: 162,300 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 4.195 million (2007)

Telephone system: general assessment: seriously inadequate; mobile cellular service is increasing rapidly, but the number of main lines is still deficient; e-mail and Internet services are available domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile-cellular systems for short-range traffic international: country code - 256; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog links to Kenya and Tanzania

Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 33, shortwave 2 (2001)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (plus 1 repeater) (2001)

Internet country code: .ug

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 2 million (2007)