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Average cost of local call	0.07		[78th of 151]
DVD region	5		[15th of 171]
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers > per 1,000 people	96.72 per 1,000 people		[134th 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: Amazon.com
HAM radio prefixes	S9A - S9Z
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Households with television > %	35.71 %		[96th 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 voice traffic > out and in, minutes	7,029,000 min.		[73rd of 164]
DEFINITION: International voice traffic is the sum of international incoming and outgoing telephone traffic (in minutes).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Mobile phone subscribers	12,000		[168th 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
Radio broadcast stations	AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1
DEFINITION: The total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Radio receivers	38,000		[185th of 188]
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008		View time series
Radios	38,000		[191st of 221]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Telecommunications investment > current LCU	22269630000
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	15.82 % GDP		[3rd 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 average cost of call to US > US$ per three minutes	5.11 $		[8th of 142]
DEFINITION: Cost of international call to U.S. is the cost of a three-minute, peak rate, fixed line call from the country to the United States.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Telephone faults > per 100 mainlines	3.98 per 100 mainlines		[94th 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	7,050		[175th 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	14,795		[175th 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	166.24		[82nd 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
Television broadcast stations	2		[8th of 89]
DEFINITION: This entry gives the total number of separate broadcast stations plus any repeater stations.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Television receivers	23,000		[165th of 185]
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008		View time series
Televisions	23,000		[175th of 215]
DEFINITION: The total number of televisions
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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