Location: Burkina Faso
13 00 N, 2 00 W
Western Africa, north of Ghana
Main City Codes (Prefix format):
Banfora 88XXXX, Bobo-Dioulasso 97XXXX – 99XXXX, Dédougou 52XXXX, Diébougou 86XXXX, Dori 66XXXX, Fada 77XXXX, Gaoua 87XXXX, Kantchari 79XXXX, Kaya 45XXXX, 49XXXX, Koudougou 44XXXX, Koupéla 70XXXX, Orodara 96XXXX, Ouagadougou 30XXXX – 38XXXX, 42XXXX, 43XXXX, Ouahigouya 55XXXX, 56XXXX, Tenkodogo 71XXXX, Tougan 53XXXX, 54XXXX
Mobile Phone Codes
Celtel (GSM 900) 57XXXX – 69XXXX, Onatel (GSM 900) 20XXXX – 29XXXX, 72XXXX - 73XXXX, Telecel Faso (GSM 900) 80XXXX – 88XXXX
Communications: Burkina Faso
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 94,800 (2006)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 1.611 million (2007)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: services only fair; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base
- domestic: microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone communication stations
- international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
- Radio broadcast stations:
- AM 2, FM 26, shortwave 3
- Television broadcast stations:
- 3 (1 national, 2 private)
- Internet country code:
- .bf
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 1 (2002)
- Internet hosts:
- 116 (2008)
- Internet users:
- 80,000 (2006)
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