Telephone system:
general assessment: urban towns and district headquarters have telecommunications services domestic: very low teledensity; domestic service is very poor especially in rural areas; wireless service available since 2003 international: country code - 975; international telephone and telegraph service via landline and microwave relay through India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 9, shortwave 1 (2007)
Radios:
37,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2007)
Televisions:
11,000 (1997)