Communications in Mozambique
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Telephones - main lines in use: 69,700 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,360,000(2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system but not available generally (less than 1 main line per 100 persons)
domestic: the system consists of open-wire lines and trunk connection by microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
international: country code - 258; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 13, FM 17, shortwave 11 (2001)
Radios: 730,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 1 (2001)
Televisions: 90,000 (1997)
[edit] Internet
TDM, Mozambique's national supplier, offers the following options:
Mozambique's national supplier, TDM, offers the following:
128/64 kbit/s with 1 GB cap for R276 (~40 US$) 128/64 kbit/s with 3 GB cap for R414 (~60 US$) 128/64 kbit/s with 4 GB cap for R525 (~75 US$) 256/128 kbit/s with 7 GB cap for R663 (~95 US$) 512/256 kbit/s with 10 GB cap for R829 (119 US$) 1024/512 kbit/s with 14 GB cap for R1160 (165 US$) 2048/1024 kbit/s with 20 GB cap for R1492 (214 US$)
An additional 1 GB is available, usable only between midnight and 6am. Installation fees come to R166 (~24 US$) and additional bandwidth costs R18 (~2.60 US$) per additional 100 MB. [1]
Mozambique was the first African country to offer broadband wireless services through WiMax.
Internet hosts: 6,985 (2006)
Internet users: 138,000 (2005)
Country code (Top level domain): MZ
