Zimbabwe:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	331,700 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular	832,500 (2006)
Telephone system	general assessment: system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for all major towns and for some of the smaller ones international: country code - 263; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; 2 international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations	16 (1997)
Internet country code	.zw
Internet hosts	15,507 (2007)
Internet users	1.22 million (2006)

Airports	341 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 19 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 10 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 322 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 152 under 914 m: 166 (2007)
Pipelines	refined products 261 km (2006)
Railways	total: 3,077 km narrow gauge: 3,077 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified) (2006)
Roadways	total: 97,440 km paved: 18,514 km unpaved: 78,926 km (2002)
Waterways	on Lake Kariba (2005)
Ports and terminals	Binga, Kariba