Telecommunications in Yemen Telecommunications in Yemen provides
information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television
infrastructure in Yemen. Since unification in 1990, efforts have
been made to create a national telecommunications network. The
infrastructure of the domestic system consists of microwave
radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter, Global System for
Mobile Communications (GSM), and CDMA. Fixed-line and mobile-
cellular teledensity remains low by regional standards. The
international network consists of three Intelsat (two Indian
Ocean, and one Atlantic Ocean), one Intersputnik, and two
Arabsat satellite earth stations, and a microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia and Djibouti. Yemen is a landing point for the
international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
(FLAG). In 2005 TeleYemen announced it would invest in the
FALCON high-capacity loop cable system, which will improve
Internet access, including broadband capability, and also expand
international call accessibility.