Thailand - Communications

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Thailand is located Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma. The climate is tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, cool northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus always hot and humid. The terrain is central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 7.024 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 51.377 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 : high quality system, especially in urban areas like Bangkok
Telephone system - domestic : fixed line system provided by both a government owned and commercial provider; wireless service expanding rapidly and outpacing fixed lines
Telephone system - international : country code - 66; connected to major submarine cable systems providing links throughout Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 238, FM 351, shortwave 6 (2007)

Radios

Radios : 13.96 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 111 (2006)

Televisions

Televisions : 15.19 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 : .th

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 : 1.116 million (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 15 (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 : 13.416 million (2007)

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