Telephones - main lines in use

70,000 (2006) provided by Telma (Telecom Malagasy) http://www.telma.mg

domestic

open-wire lines, coaxial cables, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter links

international

submarine cable in construction, linked from Tulear to Durban

Durban

Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat

Intelsat

Intelsat, Ltd. is a communications satellite services provider.Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast...

 (Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

) and 1 Intersputnik

Intersputnik

The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications commonly known as Intersputnik is an international satellite communications services organization founded on November 15, 1971, in Moscow by the Soviet Union along with a group of eight formerly socialist states...

 (Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

 region)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

3 main ones DTS, Simicro and Blueline (Gulfsat) (2006)

• DTS - http://www.dts.mg/
• Simicro - http://www.simicro.mg/
• Blueline (Gulfsat) - http://www.gulfsat.mg

In 2005, Blueline has also been the first operator in the Indian Ocean area to launch a Wimax based network for broadband Internet access.

Country code (Top level domain): MG

Newspapers

• L'Express de Madagascar
  L'Express de Madagascar
  L'Express de Madagascar is a daily newspaper published in Madagascar. It is primarily published in French, although individual sections and stories are also published in Malagasy.-External links:*...
  
  
• Midi Madagasikara
  Midi Madagasikara
  Midi Madagasikara is a daily newspaper owned by Midi Madagasikara S.A. and published in Antananarivo, Madagascar. It began distribution on August 18, 1983. The current editor-in-chief is Zo Rakotoseheno....
  
  
• Madagascar Tribune
  Madagascar Tribune
  The Madagascar Tribune is a daily newspaper published in Antananarivo, Madagascar. It is primarily in French, with several articles in Malagasy....