New Zealand - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesNew Zealand is located Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia. The climate is temperate with sharp regional contrasts. The terrain is predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 1.706 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 4.245 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 : excellent domestic and international systems
Telephone system - domestic : NA
Telephone system - international : country code - 64; the Southern Cross submarine cable system provides links to Australia, Fiji, and the US; satellite earth stations - 8 (1 Inmarsat - Pacific Ocean, 7 other)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 124, FM 290, shortwave 4 (1998)
Radios
Radios : 3.75 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 41 (plus about 700 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions
Televisions : 1.926 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 : .nz
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 : 1.72 million (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 36 (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 : 3.36 million (2007)
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