Greenland - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesGreenland is located Northern North America, island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada. The climate is arctic to subarctic; cool summers, cold winters. The terrain is flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 36,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 66,400 (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 domestic and international service provided by satellite, cables and microwave radio relay; totally digitalized in 1995
Telephone system - domestic : microwave radio relay and satellite
Telephone system - international : country code - 299; satellite earth stations - 15 (12 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean)) (2000)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 5, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios
Radios : 30,000 (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 1 (plus some local low-power stations, and 3 Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) stations (1997)
Televisions
Televisions : 30,000 (1998 est.)
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 : .gl
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 : 14,132 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (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 : 52,000 (2007)
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