Uganda - Communications

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Uganda is located Eastern Africa, west of Kenya. The climate is tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast. The terrain is mostly plateau with rim of mountains.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 162,300 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 4.195 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 : seriously inadequate; mobile cellular service is increasing rapidly, but the number of main lines is still deficient; e-mail and Internet services are available
Telephone system - domestic : intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile-cellular systems for short-range traffic
Telephone system - international : country code - 256; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog links to Kenya and Tanzania

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 7, FM 33, shortwave 2 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 5 million (2001)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 8 (plus 1 repeater) (2001)

Televisions

Televisions : 500,000 (2001)

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 : .ug

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 : 1,090 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 2 (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 : 2 million (2007)

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