Guyana - Communications

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Guyana is located Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Suriname and Venezuela. The climate is tropical; hot, humid, moderated by northeast trade winds; two rainy seasons (May to August, November to January). The terrain is mostly rolling highlands; low coastal plain; savanna in south.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 110,100 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 281,400 (2005)

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 : fair system for long-distance service
Telephone system - domestic : microwave radio relay network for trunk lines; fixed-line teledensity is about 15 per 100 persons; many areas still lack fixed-line telephone services; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 37 per 100 persons in 2005
Telephone system - international : country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios

Radios : 420,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 3 (1 public station; 2 private stations which relay US satellite services) (1997)

Televisions

Televisions : 46,000 (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 : .gy

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 : 6,218 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 3 (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 : 190,000 (2007)

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