Nigeria - Communications

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Nigeria is located Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon. The climate is varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north. The terrain is southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 1.58 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 40.395 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 : further expansion and modernization of the fixed-line telephone network is needed
Telephone system - domestic : the addition of a second fixed-line provider in 2002 resulted in faster growth but subscribership remains only about 1 per 100 persons; wireless telephony has grown rapidly, in part responding to the shortcomings of the fixed-line network; multiple service providers operate nationally; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 30 per 100 persons in 2007
Telephone system - international : country code - 234; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 83, FM 36, shortwave 11 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 23.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 3 (the government controls 2 of the broadcasting stations and 15 repeater stations) (2001)

Televisions

Televisions : 6.9 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 : .ng

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 : 1,048 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 11 (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 : 10 million (2007)

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