Telephones - main lines in use 25,000 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular 30,000 (2001)

Telephone system
general assessment: marginal telephone and telegraph service
domestic: national microwave radio relay trunk system, made unserviceable by military activities, is now operating from Freetown to Bo and Kenema (April 2001)
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations AM 1, FM 9, shortwave 1 (1999)

Radios 1.12 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations 2 (1999)

Televisions 53,000 (1997)

Internet country code .sl

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 1 (2000)

Internet users 20,000 (2001)

NOTE: The information regarding Sierra Leone 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 Sierra Leone Communications 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Sierra Leone Communications 2002 should be addressed to the CIA.