Sierra Leone: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 17,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: less than 1 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 5.657 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 96 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: marginal telephone service with poor infrastructure domestic: the national microwave radio relay trunk system connects Freetown to Bo and Kenema; while mobile-cellular service is growing rapidly from a small base, service area coverage remains limited international: country code - 232; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2010) |
| Broadcast media | 1 government-owned TV station; 3 private TV stations; a pay-TV service began operations in late 2007; 1 government-owned national radio station; about two-dozen private radio stations primarily clustered in major cities; transmissions of several internati (2016) |
| Internet country code | .sl |
| Internet users | total: 147,000 percent of population: 2.5% (July 2015 est.) |