Philippines - Communications

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Philippines is located Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam. The climate is tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to April); southwest monsoon (May to October). The terrain is mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 3.633 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 51.795 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 : good international radiotelephone and submarine cable services; domestic and interisland service adequate
Telephone system - domestic : domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations; cellular communications now dominate the industry; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone density about 60 telephones per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 63; a series of submarine cables together provide connectivity to Asia, US, the Middle East, and Europe; multiple international gateways (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 381, FM 628, shortwave 4 (each shortwave station operates on multiple frequencies in the language of the target audience) (2007)

Radios

Radios : 11.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 250 (plus 1,501 CATV networks) (2007)

Televisions

Televisions : 3.7 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 : .ph

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 : 283,579 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 33 (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 : 5.3 million (2007)

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