Mali: Communications

Communications

Mali

Telephones - main lines in use:	45,000 (2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	40,000 (2001)
Telephone system:	general assessment: domestic system unreliable but improving; provides only minimal service domestic: network consists of microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone communications stations; expansion of microwave radio relay in progress international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 1, FM 28, shortwave 1 note: the shortwave station in Bamako has seven frequencies and five transmitters and relays broadcasts for China Radio International (2001)
Radios:	570,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	1 (plus repeaters) (2001)
Televisions:	45,000 (1997)
Internet country code:	.ml
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	13 (2001)
Internet users:	30,000 (2002)