Cameroon - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesCameroon is located Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. The climate is varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north. The terrain is diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 130,700 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 4.536 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system - general assessment : fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons
Telephone system - domestic : cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter
Telephone system - international : country code - 237; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (2001)
Radios
Radios : 2.27 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 1 (2001)
Televisions
Televisions : 450,000 (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 : .cm
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 : 69 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (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 : 370,000 (2006)
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