Eritrea - Communications

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Eritrea is located Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan. The climate is hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands. The terrain is dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 37,500 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 70,000 (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 : inadequate; combined fixed-line and mobile cellular subscribership is only about 2 per 100 persons
Telephone system - domestic : inadequate; most telephones are in Asmara; government is seeking international tenders to improve the system (2002)
Telephone system - international : country code - 291; note - international connections exist

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 2, FM NA, shortwave 2 (2000)

Radios

Radios : 345,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 2 (2006)

Televisions

Televisions : 1,000 (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 : .er

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 : 1,074 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 5 (2001)

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 : 120,000 (2007)

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