12,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 200

Telephones - mobile cellular:

154,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 176

Telephone system:

general assessment: limited telephone service; fixed-line connections for well less than 1 per 100 persons coupled with mobile-cellular usage of only about 3 per 100 persons; most fixed-line and cellular telephone services are concentrated in Bangui

domestic: network consists principally of microwave radio relay and low-capacity, low-powered radiotelephone communication

international: country code - 236; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1 (2001)

Television broadcast stations: