Telephones - main lines in use:

• 14,000 (2010)
• country comparison to the world: 197
• Telephones - mobile cellular:
• 2.137 million (2011)
• country comparison to the world: 139

  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) (2009)

  Broadcast media:

• 1 government-owned TV station; 1 private TV station began operating in 2005; 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 international broadcasters are available (2007)

  Internet country code:

• .sl

  Internet hosts:

• 282 (2012)
• country comparison to the world: 192

  Internet users:

• 14,900 (2009)
• country comparison to the world: 199