Netherlands - Communications

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Netherlands is located Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany. The climate is temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters. The terrain is mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 7.334 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 17.3 million (2006)

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 : highly developed and well maintained
Telephone system - domestic : extensive fixed-line fiber-optic network; large cellular telephone system with 5 major operators utilizing the third generation of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology
Telephone system - international : country code - 31; submarine cables provide links to the US and Europe; satellite earth stations - 5 (3 Intelsat - 1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 4, FM 246, shortwave 3 (2004)

Radios

Radios : 15.3 million (1996)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 21 (plus 26 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions

Televisions : 8.1 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 : .nl

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 : 10.983 million (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 52 (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 : 15 million (2007)

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