Bakhtar News Agency is the government news agency with correspondents in 32 provinces. They send reports on news in their provinces to those regional centres that have phone lines for inclusion in newspapers and radio. The agency’s key assets are its network journalists, but it is difficult at present for them to send their reports to Kabul due to the poor state of telephone and wire services. The lack of communication links from some provinces will however be rectified in late 2003 with the supply of satellite phones.