Communications
Telephones: 61,600 (1990 est.)
Telephone system: fair system but in serious need of expansion
and better maintenance; a cellular system has been introduced as a
stopgap but the communications problems will not be solved without
substantial investment in the conventional telephone infrastructure;
e-mail and Internet services are available
domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and
radiotelephone communications stations, cellular system for short
range traffic
international: satellite earth station—1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 0, shortwave 0
Radios: 2.13 million (1993 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 8 (in addition, there is one low-power repeater) (1997)
Televisions: 220,000 (1993 est.)
Transportation
Railways:
total: 1,241 km
narrow gauge: 1,241 km 1.000-m gauge
note: a program to rehabilitate the railroad is underway (1995)
Highways:
total: 27,000 km
paved: 1,800 km
unpaved: 25,200 km (of which about 4,800 km are all-weather roads)
(1990 est.)