Telecommunications in Kenya

Telephones - main lines in use: 320,000 (2007)

Mobile's Cellular Phones: 10,418,500 (2007)

Telephone system: unreliable; little attempt to modernize except for service to the public and business sector
domestic: trunks are primarily Microwave Radio Relay; Data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system
international: satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 24, FM 8, shortwave 6 (2001)

Radios: 3.07 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (2002)

Televisions: 730,000 (1997)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 65 (2001)

Internet users: 500,000 (2002) 3,038,553 (2008)

Country Code (Top-level domain): KE

See also

• Kenya
• List of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa

External links

• Communications Commission of Kenya
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - government corporation and leading media company
• Postal Corporation of Kenya
• PanAfriL10n page on Kenya
• Media and Telecommunication Lansdcape in Kenya, a infoasaid guide, November 2010, 80 pp.