Telephone system

Rudimentary system

• Country code +266
• Telephone
  Telephone
  The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...
  
  s - main lines in use: 22,200 (2000)
• Telephones - mobile cellular: 300,000 (2007)

• Domestic: consists of a few landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a minor radiotelephone communication system; a cellular mobile telephone system is growing
• International: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat
  Intelsat
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  Atlantic Ocean
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Radio broadcast stations

AM 2, FM 10, shortwave 1 (2010)

• Radio Lesotho 1050AM
• Ultimate 950AM
• Radio Lesotho 93.3FM Maseru only
• People's Choice (PCFM) 95.6FM Maseru only
• Radio France International (RFI) 95.4FM Maseru only
• Thaha-Khube 97.1FM Maseru only
• Harvest 98.8FM Maseru only
• Moafrica 99.3FM Maseru only
• Ultimate 99.8FM Maseru only
• Kereke Evangel 102FM
• Catholic radio 103.3FM
• Jeso KE Karabo 105.2FM Maseru only
• Joy 106.9FM Maseru only

Radios:
NA (2002)

Television broadcast stations

2 (2010)

• Lesotho Television (LTV 151 on DStv
  DStv
  DStv is MultiChoice's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa, launched in 1995. It operates from two satellites over Africa, broadcasting on Ku band via Eutelsat W7 and Intelsat 7 , which only requires a small satellite dish...
  
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• Trinity Broadcasting Network
  Trinity Broadcasting Network
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Print News

Main newspapers in Lesotho

Lesotho

Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...

• Public Eye newspaper Public Eye website
• Lesotho Times Lesotho Times website
• Informative News Informative News website

Telecommunications providers

Vodacom Lesotho

Vodacom

Vodacom is a pan-African mobile telecommunications company, and was the 1st cellular network in South Africa. It provides GSM service to more than 35 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revenue for the year ended 31 March 2008...

 started operating in 1996 with the Government of Lesotho as a shareholder through its stake in Lesotho Telecommunications Corporation. When the Government of Lesotho began its privatisation process in 1999, it invited bids for this share in Vodacom Lesotho. In July 2000, Sekha-Metsi Consortium, a group of local business people and public figures, was announced as the successful bidder. Sekha-Metsi now holds a 12% share in Vodacom Lesotho with the remaining share held by Vodacom Group. In 2008 Vodacom Lesotho introduced its new partnership with Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

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Econet Telecom Lesotho is part of the Econet Wireless

Econet Wireless

Econet Wireless is Zimbabwe's principal mobile or cell phone company and was established by the Zimbabwean businessman, Strive Masiyiwa. It is now the nation's largest cell phone network having captured 73.3% of the market share...

 group and operates as a stand-alone entity with full local board and management control. It is the first African mobile service operator to use ForgetMeNot Africa

ForgetMeNot Africa

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's eTXT service to enable their customer base to send and receive email

Email

Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

 via any mobile capable of a simple SMS

SMS

SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...