Ethiopia - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesEthiopia is located Eastern Africa, west of Somalia. The climate is tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation. The terrain is high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 880,100 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 1.208 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 : inadequate telephone system; the number of fixed lines and mobile telephones is increasing from a very small base; combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity is only about 2 per 100 persons
Telephone system - domestic : open-wire; microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies; 2 domestic satellites provide the national trunk service
Telephone system - international : country code - 251; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 8, FM 0, shortwave 1 (2001)
Radios
Radios : 15.2 million (2002)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 1 (plus 24 repeaters) (2001)
Televisions
Televisions : 682,000 (2002)
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 : .et
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 : 128 (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 : 291,000 (2007)
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