Lithuania - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesLithuania is located Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia. The climate is transitional, between maritime and continental; wet, moderate winters and summers. The terrain is lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 799,400 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 4.912 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 : adequate; being modernized to provide improved international capability and better residential access
Telephone system - domestic : rapid expansion of mobile-cellular services has resulted in a steady decline in the number of main line subscriptions; mobile-cellular teledensity has increased to about 135 per 100 persons while fixed-line teledensity has dropped to 22 per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 370; major international connections to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite; landline connections to Latvia and Poland (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 29, FM 142, shortwave 1 (2001)
Radios
Radios : 1.9 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 27 (may have as many as 100 transmitters, including repeater stations) (2001)
Televisions
Televisions : 1.7 million (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 : .lt
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 : 812,083 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 32 (2001)
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 : 1.333 million (2007)
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