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Communications in Zimbabwe refers to the communication services avaliable in Zimbabwe.
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Telephone system
The phone system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines.
Main lines in use: 344,500 in 2007
Domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for all major towns and for some of the smaller ones
International: Satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; two international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)
Mobile cellular: 1,226,000 in 2007
Radio
Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 4 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1. Acts as the primary communiction for largely rural population. All stations are stringently controlled by the government run ZBC (2002)
Radios: 1.14 million (1997)
Television
Television broadcast stations: only one state-controlled propaganda station ZBC, as government has shut down and refuses to issue licenses to domestic independent broadcasters such as JoyTV in 2002
Televisions: 370,000 (1997)
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (2000), 10 (1999)
In 2007, there were 1.351 million internet users. In June 2004 Mugabe asked ISPs to monitor all email traffic passing through their systems for "anti-national activities". ISPs protest that this is an impossible task. 1
Country code (Top level domain): ZW
See also
References
- ^ "Mugabe introduces new curbs on internet", The Guardian, 3 June, 2004.
This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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