Cape Verde - Communications

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Cape Verde is located Western Africa, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal. The climate is temperate; warm, dry summer; precipitation meager and very erratic. The terrain is steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 71,600 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 148,000 (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 entry
Telephone system - general assessment : effective system, extensive modernization from 1996-2000 following partial privatization in 1995
Telephone system - domestic : major service provider is Cabo Verde Telecom (CVT); fiber-optic ring, completed in 2001, links all islands providing Internet access and ISDN services; cellular service introduced in 1998; broadband services launched in 2004
Telephone system - international : country code - 238; landing point for the Atlantis-2 fiber-optic transatlantic telephone cable that provides links to South America, Senegal, and Europe; HF radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 0, FM 22 (plus 12 repeaters), shortwave 0 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 100,000 (2002 est.)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 1 (plus 7 repeaters) (2001)

Televisions

Televisions : 15,000 (2002 est.)

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 : .cv

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 : 20 (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 : 37,000 (2007)

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