Australia - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesAustralia is located Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. The climate is generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north. The terrain is mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 9.76 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 21.26 million (2007)
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 entryTelephone system - general assessment : excellent domestic and international service
Telephone system - domestic : domestic satellite system; significant use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones
Telephone system - international : country code - 61; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Southern Cross fiber optic submarine cable provides links to New Zealand and the United States; satellite earth stations - 19 (10 Intelsat - 4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean, 2 Inmarsat - Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, 2 Globalstar, 5 other) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios
Radios : 25.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 104 (1997)
Televisions
Televisions : 10.15 million (1997)
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 : .au
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 : 11.134 million (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 571 (2002)
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 : 11.24 million (2007)
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