Telephones - main lines in use:
133,900 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.218 million (2007)

Telephone system:
general assessment: system is above average for the region; Antananarivo's main telephone exchange modernized in the late 1990s, but the rest of the analogue-based telephone system is poorly developed; have added more than 50,000 new fixed lines since 2005
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile telephone density only about 12 per 100 persons
international: country code - 261; submarine cable to Bahrain; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean, 1 Intersputnik - Atlantic Ocean region) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 6 (2001)

Television - broadcast stations:
1 (plus 36 repeaters) (2001)

Internet country code:
.mg

Internet hosts:
11,016 (2008)