AfghanistanCommunications

Telephones - main lines in use:	33,100 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	15,000 (2002)
Telephone system:	general assessment: very limited telephone and telegraph servicedomestic: telephone service improving with the establishment of two mobile phone operators by 2003; telephone main lines remain weak with only 0.1 line per 10 peopleinternational: country code - 93; five VSAT's installed in Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar, and Jalalabad provide international and domestic voice and data connectivity
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 21, FM 23, shortwave 1 (broadcasts in Pashtu, Afghan Persian (Dari), Urdu, and English) (2003)
Radios:	167,000 (1999)
Television broadcast stations:	at least 10 (one government-run central television station in Kabul and regional stations in nine of the 32 provinces; the regional stations operate on a reduced schedule; also, in 1997, there was a station in Mazar-e Sharif reaching four northern Afghanistan provinces) (1998)
Televisions:	100,000 (1999)
Internet country code:	.af
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	1 (2000)
Internet users:	1,000 (2002)
Communications - note:	in March 2003 'af' was established as Afghanistan's domain name; Internet access is growing through Internet cafes as well as public "telekiosks" in Kabul that are part of a nationwide network proposed by the Transitional Authority for Internet access (2002)

More about Afghanistan:

The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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