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Average cost of local call	0.14		[15th of 151]
DVD region	5		[3rd of 171]
E-Government rating	20		[183rd of 182]
DEFINITION: Darrell M. West, Center for Public Policy, Brown University
SOURCE: Amazon.com
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers > per 1,000 people	7.92 per 1,000 people		[182nd of 193]
DEFINITION: Fixed lines are telephone mainlines connecting a customer's equipment to the public switched telephone network. Mobile phone subscribers refer to users of portable telephones subscribing to an automatic public mobile telephone service using cellular technology that provides access to the public switched telephone network.		View time series
SOURCE: report presents the second annual update on global e-government, i.e., the delivery of public sector information and online services through the Internet. This report studies the features that are available online at national government websites. Using a detailed analysis of 1.197 government websites in 198 different nations, it measures the information and services that are online, chart the variations that exist across countries, and discuss how e-government sites vary by region of the world. In order to see how the 198 nations ranked overall, the E-Government Ranking 2002 created a 0 to 100 point index and applied it to each nation's websites based on the availability of contact information, publications, databases, portals, and number of online services. (2002)
HAM radio prefixes	J5A - J5Z
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Households with television > %	25.74 %		[106th of 160]
DEFINITION: Households with television are the share of households with a television set. Some countries report only the number of households with a color television set, and therefore the true number may be higher than reported.		View time series
SOURCE: hamcity.com
International dialling code	245
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
International voice traffic > out and in, minutes	12,158,000 min.		[137th of 164]
DEFINITION: International voice traffic is the sum of international incoming and outgoing telephone traffic (in minutes).		View time series
Mobile phone subscribers	67,000		[156th of 198]
DEFINITION: Mobile telephone subscribers are subscribers to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	6,000		[84th of 90]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database		View time series
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	1		[101st of 106]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Radio broadcast stations AM 1 (transmitter out of service), FM 4, shortwave 0
DEFINITION: The total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.		View time series
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Radio receivers	49,000		[184th of 188]
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008		View time series
Radios	49,000		[188th of 221]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Telecommunications investment > current LCU	1347000000
DEFINITION: Telecommunications investment refers to the expenditure associated with acquiring the ownership of telecommunication equipment infrastructure (including supporting land and buildings and intellectual and non-tangible property such as computer software). These include expenditure on initial installations and on additions to existing installations.		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Telecommunications revenue > % GDP	5.41 % GDP		[19th of 167]
DEFINITION: Telecommunications revenue is the revenue from the provision of telecommunications services such as fixed-line, mobile, and data.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Telephone faults > per 100 mainlines	70.5 per 100 mainlines		[19th of 134]
DEFINITION: Telephone mainline faults is the number of reported telephone faults for the year per 100 telephone mainlines.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Telephone mainlines	10,558		[178th of 202]
DEFINITION: Telephone mainlines are fixed telephone lines connecting a subscriber to the telephone exchange equipment.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Telephone subscribers	11,833		[181st of 199]
DEFINITION: Telephone subscribers are the total of fixed-line subscribers plus mobile.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Telephone subscribers per employee	45.77		[151st of 191]
DEFINITION: Telephone subscribers per employee are telephone subscribers (fixed-line plus mobile) divided by total telecommunications employees.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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