Lesotho:
Communications & Transportation

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Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.


Telephones - main lines in use	Definition - World rank and map 48,000 (2005)
Telephones - main lines in use per 1,000 people	Definition - World rank and map 22.6 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular	Definition - World rank and map 456,000 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular subscribers per 1,000 people	Definition - World rank and map 214.3 (2007)
Telephone system	Definition general assessment: rudimentary system consisting of a modest but growing number of landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a small radiotelephone communication system; mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding domestic: privatized in 2001, Telecom Lesotho tasked with providing an additional 50,000 fixed-line connections within five years, a target not met; mobile-cellular service is expanding with a subscribership approaching 15 per 100 persons; rural services are scant international: country code - 266; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations	Definition AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations	Definition 1 (2000)
Internet country code	Definition .ls
Internet hosts	Definition - World rank and map 66 (2007)
Internet hosts per 1,000 people	Definition - World rank and map nearly 0 (2007)
Internet users	Definition - World rank and map 51,500 (2005)
Internet users per 1,000 people	Definition - World rank and map 24.2 (2005)

Airports	Definition - World rank and map 28 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	Definition total: 3 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	Definition total: 25 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 21 (2007)
Roadways	Definition - World rank and map total: 5,940 km paved: 1,087 km unpaved: 4,853 km (2000)

Lesotho: Communications & Transportation

Lesotho:
Communications & Transportation