Haiti - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesHaiti is located Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic. The climate is tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds. The terrain is mostly rough and mountainous.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 150,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 2.2 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 : domestic facilities barely adequate; international facilities slightly better; telephone density in Haiti remains the lowest in the Latin American and Caribbean region
Telephone system - domestic : coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service; combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity is about 25 per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 509; 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 41, FM 26, shortwave 0 (1999)
Radios
Radios : 415,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 2 (plus a cable TV service) (1997)
Televisions
Televisions : 38,000 (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 : .ht
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 : 7 (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 : 1 million (2007)
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