Gabon - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesGabon is located Western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean at the Equator, between Republic of the Congo and Equatorial Guinea. The climate is tropical; always hot, humid. The terrain is narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 26,500 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 1.169 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 : adequate service by African standards and improving with the help of a growing mobile cell network system with multiple providers; mobile-cellular subscribership reached 80 per 100 persons in 2007
Telephone system - domestic : adequate system of cable, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, radiotelephone communication stations, and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
Telephone system - international : country code - 241; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 6, FM 7 (plus 11 repeaters), shortwave 4 (2001)
Radios
Radios : 208,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 4 (plus 4 repeaters) (2001)
Televisions
Televisions : 63,000 (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 : .ga
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 : 88 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (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 : 145,000 (2007)
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