Laos:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	90,067 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular	638,200 (2006)
Telephone system	general assessment: service to general public is poor but improving; the government relies on a radiotelephone network to communicate with remote areas domestic: multiple service providers; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership about 10 per 100 persons international: country code - 856; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 7, FM 14, shortwave 2 (2006)
Television broadcast stations	7 (includes 1 station relaying Vietnam Television from Hanoi) (2006)
Internet country code	.la
Internet hosts	935 (2007)
Internet users	25,000 (2005)

Airports	42 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 9 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 33 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 9 under 914 m: 23 (2007)
Pipelines	refined products 540 km (2006)
Roadways	total: 31,210 km paved: 4,494 km unpaved: 26,716 km (2003)
Waterways	4,600 km note: primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m (2007)
Merchant marine	total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 2,370 GRT/3,110 DWT by type: cargo 1 (2007)