Zimbabwe - Communications

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Zimbabwe is located Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zambia. The climate is tropical; moderated by altitude; rainy season (November to March). The terrain is mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high veld); mountains in east.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 344,500 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 1.226 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 : system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines
Telephone system - domestic : consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile-cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for all major towns and for some of the smaller ones
Telephone system - international : country code - 263; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; 2 international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios

Radios : 1.14 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 16 (1997)

Televisions

Televisions : 370,000 (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 : .zw

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 : 19,157 (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 : 1.351 million (2007)

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