Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 212,000 (in addition, there are about 20,000 fixed telephones in
wireless local loop connections) (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 111,000 (2001)
Telephone system:
general assessment: system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance;
more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but
unused main lines
domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations,
fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile cellular network; Internet connection is
available in Harare and planned for all major towns and for some of the smaller ones
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; two international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 1.14 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 16 (1997)
Televisions: 370,000 (1997)
Internet country code: .zw
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (2000)
Internet users: 100,000 (2002)
(Source: The World FactBook 2002)
