Tonga:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	13,700 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular	29,900 (2005)
Telephone system	general assessment: competition between Tonga Telecommunications Corporation (TCC) and Shoreline Communications Tonga (SCT) is accelerating expansion of telecommunications; SCT recently granted authority to develop high-speed digital service for telephone, Internet, and television domestic: fully automatic switched network international: country code - 676; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2004)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2001)
Television broadcast stations	3 (2004)
Internet country code	.to
Internet hosts	18,653 (2007)
Internet users	3,100 (2006)

Airports	6 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 1 (2007)
Roadways	total: 680 km paved: 184 km unpaved: 496 km (1999)
Merchant marine	total: 14 ships (1000 GRT or over) 58,756 GRT/67,889 DWT by type: bulk carrier 1, cargo 9, liquefied gas 1, livestock carrier 1, passenger/cargo 1, refrigerated cargo 1 foreign-owned: 3 (Australia 1, Switzerland 1, UK 1) (2007)
Ports and terminals	Nuku'alofa