Afghanistan - Communications

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Afghanistan is located Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran. The climate is arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers. The terrain is mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 280,000 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 5.4 million (2008)

Telephone system

This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry
Telephone system - general assessment : limited landline telephone service; an increasing number of Afghans utilize mobile-cellular phone networks in major cities
Telephone system - domestic : aided by the presence of multiple providers, mobile-cellular telephone service is improving rapidly
Telephone system - international : country code - 93; five VSAT's installed in Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar, and Jalalabad provide international and domestic voice and data connectivity (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 21, FM 5, shortwave 1 (broadcasts in Pashto, Dari (Afghan Persian), Urdu, and English) (2006)

Radios

Radios : 167,000 (1999)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : at least 7 (1 government-run central television station in Kabul and regional stations in 6 of the 34 provinces) (2006)

Televisions

Televisions : 100,000 (1999)

Internet country code

This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Internet country code : .af

Internet hosts

This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.
Internet hosts : 31 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (2000)

Internet users

This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.
Internet users : 580,000 (2007)

Communications - note

This entry includes miscellaneous communications information of significance not included elsewhere.
Communications - note : Internet access is growing through Internet cafes as well as public "telekiosks" in Kabul (2005)

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