Sao Tome and Principe - Communications

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Sao Tome and Principe is located Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon. The climate is tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May). The terrain is volcanic, mountainous.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 7,700 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 30,100 (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 : local telephone network of adequate quality with most lines connected to digital switches
Telephone system - domestic : combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity approaching 20 telephones per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 239; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 38,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 2 (2001)

Televisions

Televisions : 23,000 (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 : .st

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 : 1,355 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (2002)

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 : 23,000 (2007)

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