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Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Media

PAPUA NEW GUINEAN MEDIA STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Average cost of local call 0.06 [88th of 151]
DVD region 4 [76th of 171]
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers > per 1,000 people 14.55 per 1,000 people Time series [172nd of 193]
Households with television > % 9.36 % Time series [49th of 160]
Mobile phone subscribers 26,000 Time series [163rd of 198]
Number of PCs 367 [74th of 169]
Personal computers 367,000 Time series [72nd of 164]
Phone subscribers 13.73 [160th of 178]
Radio broadcast stations AM 8, FM 19, shortwave 28 Time series
Radio receivers 410,000 Time series [137th of 188]
Radios 410,000 [138th of 221]
Telephone system > Domestic
access to telephone services is not widely available; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity is 6 per 100 persons
Telephone system > International
country code - 675; submarine cables to Australia and Guam; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); international radio communication service
Telephone system > Regulation 1997
Telephones > Main lines in use 60,000 Time series [111st of 174]
Telephones > Mobile cellular 300,000 Time series [140th of 186]
Television broadcast stations 3 Time series [21st of 89]
Television receivers 42,000 Time series [155th of 185]
Television standard > VHF PAL B
Televisions 59,841 [152nd of 215]

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SOURCES: ; Amazon.com; World Development Indicators database; ITU; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; ITU-BDT Telecommunications Regulatory Database; Tenlab May 2002

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.

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