Equatorial Guinea - Communications

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Equatorial Guinea is located Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon. The climate is tropical; always hot, humid. The terrain is coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 10,000 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 220,000 (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 : digital fixed-line network in most major urban areas and good mobile coverage
Telephone system - domestic : fixed-line density is about 2 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing and in 2007 stood at about 40 percent of the population
Telephone system - international : country code - 240; international communications from Bata and Malabo to African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 5 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 180,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 1 (2001)

Televisions

Televisions : 4,000 (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 : .gq

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 : 9 (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 : 8,000 (2006)

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