Macedonia - Communications

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Macedonia is located Southeastern Europe, north of Greece. The climate is warm, dry summers and autumns; relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall. The terrain is mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 463,600 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 1.518 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 entry
Telephone system - general assessment : competition from the mobile-cellular segment of the telecommunications market has led to a drop in fixed-line telephone subscriptions
Telephone system - domestic : combined fixed line and mobile telephone density approaching 100 per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 389 (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 29, FM 63, shortwave 0 (2007)

Radios

Radios : 410,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 52 (2007)

Televisions

Televisions : 510,000 (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 : .mk

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 : 36,905 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 6 (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 : 685,000 (2007)

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