Laos - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesLaos is located Southeastern Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam. The climate is tropical monsoon; rainy season (May to November); dry season (December to April). The terrain is mostly rugged mountains; some plains and plateaus.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 94,800 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 1.478 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 : service to general public is poor but improving; the government relies on a radiotelephone network to communicate with remote areas
Telephone system - domestic : multiple service providers; mobile cellular usage growing rapidly; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership about 25 per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 856; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 7, FM 14, shortwave 2 (2006)
Radios
Radios : 730,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 7 (includes 1 station relaying Vietnam Television from Hanoi) (2006)
Televisions
Televisions : 52,000 (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 : .la
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 : 1,015 (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 : 100,000 (2007)
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