Christmas Island - Communications

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Christmas Island is located Southeastern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia. The climate is tropical with a wet season (December to April) and dry season; heat and humidity moderated by trade winds. The terrain is steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : NA

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 : service provided by the Australian network
Telephone system - domestic : GSM mobile telephone service replaced older analog system in February 2005
Telephone system - international : country code - 61-8; satellite earth station - 1 (Intelsat provides telephone and telex service) (2005)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2006)

Radios

Radios : 1,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 0 (TV broadcasts received via satellite from mainland Australia) (2006)

Televisions

Televisions : 600 (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 : .cx

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 : 1,821 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 2 (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 : 464 (2001)

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