Burkina Faso:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	94,800 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular	1.017 million (2006)
Telephone system	general assessment: services only fair; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing and stands at about 7 per 100 persons domestic: microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone communication stations international: country code - 226; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 3, FM 17, shortwave 3 (2001)
Television broadcast stations	1 (2002)
Internet country code	.bf
Internet hosts	193 (2007)
Internet users	80,000 (2006)

Airports	33 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 2 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 31 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 11 under 914 m: 17 (2007)
Railways	total: 622 km narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge note:: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote D'Ivoire (2006)
Roadways	total: 15,272 km paved: 4,766 km unpaved: 10,506 km (2004)