Seychelles - Communications

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Seychelles is located archipelago in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar. The climate is tropical marine; humid; cooler season during southeast monsoon (late May to September); warmer season during northwest monsoon (March to May). The terrain is Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 22,700 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 77,300 (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 : effective system
Telephone system - domestic : combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity is nearly 125 telephones per 100 persons; radiotelephone communications between islands in the archipelago
Telephone system - international : country code - 248; direct radiotelephone communications with adjacent island countries and African coastal countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 2 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 42,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 2 (plus 9 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions

Televisions : 11,000 (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 : .sc

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 : 284 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (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 : 32,000 (2007)

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