Liechtenstein - Communications

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Liechtenstein is located Central Europe, between Austria and Switzerland. The climate is continental; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow or rain; cool to moderately warm, cloudy, humid summers. The terrain is mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley in western third.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 20,000 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 27,500 (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 : automatic telephone system
Telephone system - domestic : NA
Telephone system - international : country code - 423; linked to Swiss networks by cable and microwave radio relay

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 0, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios

Radios : 21,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : NA (linked to Swiss networks) (1997)

Televisions

Televisions : 12,000 (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 : .li

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 : 7,639 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 44 (Liechtenstein and Switzerland) (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 : 22,000 (2006)

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