Telephones - main lines in use:
264,800 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
11.44 million (2007)

Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate; fixed-line telephone system is small and inefficient; trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system
domestic: no recent growth in fixed-line infrastructure and the sole provider, Telkom Kenya, is slated for privatization; multiple providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a boom in mobile-cellular telephone usage
international: country code - 254; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 24, FM 18, shortwave 6 (2001)

Television broadcast stations:
8 (2001)

Internet country code:
.ke

Internet hosts:
27,376 (2008)

Internet users:
3 million (2007)