Laos Communications - 2005

https://allcountries.org/wfb2005/laos/laos_communications.html
SOURCE: 2005 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

Telephones - main lines in use:
61,900 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
55,200 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: service to general public is poor but improving with over 20,000 telephones currently in service and an additional 48,000 expected by 2001; the government relies on a radiotelephone network to communicate with remote areas
domestic: radiotelephone communications
international: country code - 856; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 4 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
4 (1999)

Internet country code:
.la

Internet hosts:
937 (2003)

Internet users:
15,000 (2002)

NOTE: The information regarding Laos on this page is re-published from the 2005 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Laos Communications 2005 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Laos Communications 2005 should be addressed to the CIA.