Telephones - main lines in use 291,359 (1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular 32,042 (2000)

Telephone system
general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM cellular mobile telephone systems
international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio broadcast stations AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios 1.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations 7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions 470,000 (1997)

Internet country code .ye

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 1 (2000)

Internet users 14,000 (2001)

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