ephones - mobile cellular:

918,400 (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: primitive system with high costs and low
telephone density; fixed-line connections for only about 1 per 1000
persons coupled with mobile-cellular usage of only about 9 per 100
persons
domestic: fair system of radiotelephone communication stations
international: country code - 235; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 5 (2001)

Radios:

1.67 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (2001)

Televisions:

10,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.td

Internet hosts:

5 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2002)

Internet users:

60,000 (2006)

Transportation
Chad

Airports:

55 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 7
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 48
1,524 to 2,437 m: 16
914 to 1,523 m: 21
under 914 m: 11 (2007)

Pipelines:

oil 250 km (2007)

Roadways:

total: 33,400 km
paved: 267 km
unpaved: 33,133 km (2002)

Waterways:

Chari and Legone rivers are navigable only in wet season (2006)

Military
Chad

Military branches:

Armed Forces: Chadian National Army (Armee Nationale du Tchad, ANT),
Chadian Air Force (Force Aerienne Tchadienne, FAT), Gendarmerie
(2008)

Military service age and obligation:

20 years of age for conscripts, with 3-year service obligation; 18
years of age for volunteers; no minimum age restriction for
volunteers with consent from a guardian; women are subject to 1 year
of compulsory military or civic service at age of 21 (2004)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,906,545
females age 16-49: 2,258,758 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,066,565
females age 16-49: 1,279,318 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 116,824
female: 117,831 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

4.2% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Chad

Disputes - international:

since 2003, Janjawid armed militia and the Sudanese military have
driven hundreds of thousands of Darfur residents into Chad; Chad
remains an important mediator in the Sudanese civil conflict,
reducing tensions with Sudan arising from cross-border banditry;
Chadian