Tanzania - Communications

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Tanzania is located Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique. The climate is varies from tropical along coast to temperate in highlands. The terrain is plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north, south.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 165,013 (2008)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 9.358 million (2008)

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 : telecommunications services are inadequate; system operating below capacity and being modernized for better service; small aperture terminal (VSAT) system under construction
Telephone system - domestic : fixed-line telephone network inadequate with less than 1 connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service, aided by multiple providers, is increasing; trunk service provided by open-wire, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable; some links being made digital
Telephone system - international : country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios

Radios : 8.8 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 3 (1999)

Televisions

Televisions : 103,000 (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 : .tz

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 : 24,271 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 6 (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 : 400,000 (2007)

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