Telephones - main lines in use 236,816 (January 2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular NA

Telephone system
general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone network
domestic: NA
international: radiotelephone communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (January 2000)

Radios 840,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations 1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998)

Televisions 130,000 (1997)

Internet country code .np

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 6 (2000)

Internet users 50,000 (2001)

NOTE: The information regarding Nepal on this page is re-published from the 2002 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Nepal Communications 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Nepal Communications 2002 should be addressed to the CIA.