Communications in Afghanistan

Communications in Afghanistan are as follows:

Telephones - main lines in use: 31,200 (1983); note - there were 21,000 main lines in use in Kabul in 1998

Telephones - mobile cellular: NA

Telephone Country Code: +93

Telephone system:
domestic: very limited telephone and telegraph service; in 1997, telecommunications links were established between [Mazar-e Sharif]?, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Kabul through satellite and microwave systems
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat? (Indian Ocean) linked only to Iran and 1 Intersputnik? (Atlantic Ocean region); commercial satellite telephone center in Ghazni?

Radio broadcast stations: AM 7 (6 are inactive; the active station is in Kabul), FM 1, shortwave 1 (broadcasts in Pushtu?, Dari?, Urdu, and English) (1999)

Radios: 167,000 (1999)

Television broadcast stations: at least 10 (one government run central television station in Kabul and regional stations in nine of the 30 provinces; the regional stations operate on a reduced schedule; also, in 1997, there was a station in Mazar-e Sharif reaching four northern Afghanistan provinces) (1998)

Televisions: 100,000 (1999)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA

Country code: AF