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Telecommunications in Togo include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.

Radio and television

Radio stations:

state-owned radio network with multiple stations; several dozen private radio stations and a few community radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2007).

The radio services of the BBC World Service, Gabon's Africa No. 1, and Radio France Internationale (RFI) are all available.

Main lines:

  • 225,000 lines in use, 127th in the world (2012);
  • 213,800 lines in use, 126th in the world (2010).

Mobile cellular:

  • 3.5 million lines, 124th in the world (2012); GLO-1 which links countries along the west coast of Africa to each other and to Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Internet

Top-level domain: .tg

  • 356,300 users, 123rd in the world (2009).

Wireless broadband: 47,892 subscribers, 125th in the world; 0.7% of the population, 135th in the world (2012).

Internet hosts:

  • 1,168 hosts, 170th in the world (2012);

Internet censorship and surveillance

There are no known government restrictions on access to the Internet or reports that the government monitors e-mail or Internet chat rooms without judicial oversight. Although the constitution provides for freedom of speech and press, the government restricts these rights.

The constitution and law prohibit arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, and the government generally respects these prohibitions. In criminal cases a judge or senior police official may authorize searches of private residences. Citizens believe the government monitors telephones and correspondence, although such surveillance has not been confirmed.