Congo:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	15,900 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular	490,000 (2005)
Telephone system	general assessment: services barely adequate for government use; key exchanges are in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, and Loubomo; intercity lines frequently out of order; fixed-line infrastructure inadequate providing less than 1 connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribership has surged reaching 16 per 100 persons domestic: primary network consists of microwave radio relay and coaxial cable international: country code - 242; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 3 (2001)
Television broadcast stations	1 (2001)
Internet country code	.cg
Internet hosts	3 (2007)
Internet users	70,000 (2006)

Airports	31 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 5 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 26 1,524 to 2,437 m: 7 914 to 1,523 m: 10 under 914 m: 9 (2007)
Pipelines	gas 89 km; liquid petroleum gas 4 km; oil 744 km (2006)
Railways	total: 894 km narrow gauge: 894 km 1.067-m gauge (2006)
Roadways	total: 17,289 km paved: 864 km unpaved: 16,425 km (2004)
Waterways	1,125 km (commercially navigable on Congo and Oubanqui rivers) (2006)
Merchant marine	registered in other countries: 1 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1) (2007)
Ports and terminals	Brazzaville, Djeno, Impfondo, Ouesso, Oyo, Pointe-Noire