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- Communications
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- Highways: 39 km of paved roads on major islands; also 187 km
- stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads
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- Ports: Colonia (Yap), Truk (Kosrae), Okat (Kosrae)
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- Airports: 6 total, 5 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways;
- none with runways over 2,439 m; 4 with runways 1,220-2,439
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- Telecommunications: telephone network - 960 telephone lines
- total at Kolonia and Truk; islands interconnected by shortwave
- radio (used mostly for government purposes); 16,000 radio
- receivers, 1,125 TV sets (est. 1987); broadcast stations - 5
- AM, 1 FM, 6 TV, 1 shortwave; 4 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth
- stations
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