Telecommunications in Mauritania

Telephones - main lines in use: 300,500
Telephones - mobile cellular: 200,000
Telephone system: general assessment: limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations
domestic: mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals.
international: country code +222; satellite earth stations - 9 Intelsat and 20 Arabsat.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 14, shortwave 1
Radios: 410,000
Television broadcast stations: 20
Televisions: 708,000
Internet Service Providers : 26
Internet users: 250,000
Country code : .mr

Broadband Internet access

Mauritania has three operators, the original monopoly, Mauritel, Mattel and Chinguitel, which started operating in December 2006.
The country only has around 1000 DSL subscribers, and 300,0000 internet subscribers in total, out of a population of 4.5 million. Monthly DSL charges were high, around US$30 per month, but have now dropped to MRO 10,000 per month.