Communications in East Timor
from the CIA World Factbook 2002

Telecommunications

Following Indonesian withdrawal from East Timor in 1999, the telecommunications infrastructure was destroyed in the ensuing violence. A new country calling code (670) was allocated to East Timor, but international access remains either severely limited, or extremely expensive.

The Australian telephone company Telstra expanded its cellular telephone signal into East Timor in 2000, and operated services until 2003, when Timor Telecom, part-owned by Portugal Telecom, began operating fixed line and mobile telephone services. Until recently, the fixed line network was mainly confined to the capital Dili, although this has been expanded nationwide, to each district capital.

Telephones - main lines in use:
NA

Telephones - mobile cellular:
NA

Telephone system:
NA

Radio broadcast stations:
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

Radios:
5

Television broadcast stations:
1 Televisão Timor Leste or Televizaun Timor Lorosae- broadcasts confined to Dili.

Televisions:
NA

Internet country code:
.TP is the Internet top-level domain code used for East Timor, based on its previous ISO 3166-1 code. However, the latter code was officially changed to TL when the country achieved its independence on May 20, 2002, though this has so far not affected the Internet TLD.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1

Internet users:
NA