Norfolk Island - Communications

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Norfolk Island is located Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia. The climate is subtropical; mild, little seasonal temperature variation. The terrain is volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 2,532; note - a mix of analog (2500) and digital (32) circuits (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 0; note - proposed cellular service disallowed in August 2002 island referendum (2002)

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 : adequate
Telephone system - domestic : free local calls
Telephone system - international : country code - 672; undersea coaxial cable links with Australia and New Zealand; satellite earth station - 1

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (2005)

Radios

Radios : 2,500 (1996)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 1 (local programming station plus 2 repeaters that air Australian programs by satellite) (2005)

Televisions

Televisions : 1,200 (1996)

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 : .nf

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 : 51 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 2 (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 : 700 (2002 est.)

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