Telecommunications in Mauritania

Telephones - main lines in use: 300,500 (2024)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 200,000 (2003)

Telephone system: general assessment: limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations (improvements being made)

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 (Atlantic Ocean) and 20 Arabsat.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 14, shortwave 1 (2001)

Radios: 410,000 (2001)

Television broadcast stations: 20 (2024)

Televisions: 708,000 (2001)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 26 (2014)

Internet users: 250,000 (2002)

Country code (Top level domain): .mr