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Encyclopedia > Communications in Guyana
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Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use: 110,100 (2005 - source: ITU) The telephone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly speech) across distance. ...


Telephones - mobile cellular: 281,400 (Sep 2005 - source: Informa Telecoms)


Telephone system: fair system for long-distance calling
domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines
international: tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); Americas II submarine cable Look up Trinidad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Intelsat, Ltd. ...


Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998) Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... A solid-state, analog shortwave receiver Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3,000 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) [1] and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than those commonly...


Radios: 420,000 (1997)


Television

Television broadcast stations: over 10 (one public station; several private stations which relay US satellite services and some local programs)(2005)


Televisions: 46,000 (1997)


Internet

Internet Services:

  • Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2005) - Inter.Net.Works, Solutions2000 and GuyanaNet
  • Broadband and Wireless ISPs (WISPs): 4 (2005) - GT&T, I-Net, Broadband Inc. and E-Networks
  • Internet Presence Providers (IPP) (hosting and development): RedSpider

Country code (Top-level domain): GY. Domain Name Registrar (.org.gy, .edu.gy & .gov.gy): DevNet

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Communications in South America

World map showing South America South America is a continent situated in the western hemisphere and, mostly, the southern hemisphere, bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. ... Image File history File links South_America. ...

Sovereign states
Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama* · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago* · Uruguay · Venezuela This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... Telephones - main lines in use: 209,000 (1995) Telephones - mobile cellular: 5,615 (1995) Telephone system: plausible international service; plausible local service domestic: NA international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Barbados and Guyana Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 10, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 680...


Dependencies
Aruba* (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands (UK) · French Guiana (France) · Netherlands Antilles* (Netherlands) · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK)
* Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America). A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require rewriting and/or reformatting. ... Telephones - main lines in use: 47,000 (1995) Telephones - mobile cellular: NA Telephone system: domestic: fair open wire and microwave radio relay system international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 14 (including 6 repeaters), shortwave 6 (including 5 repeaters) (1998) Radios: 104,000... Motto: Leo Terram Propriam Protegat (Latin: The Lion shall protect his own land) Official language English Capital Grytviken Commissioner Howard Pearce Area  - Total  - % water not ranked 3,903 km² - Population  - Total (2006 E)  - Density not ranked ~20 n/a; Currency GBP Time zone UTC/GMT -2 National anthem God Save... A transcontinental nation is a country belonging to more than one continent. ... World map showing the Americas CIA political map of the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...


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Guyana at AllExperts (4595 words)
Guyana is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south and west by Brazil and to the west by Venezuela.
Guyana is currently in a border dispute with Suriname, which claims the land east of the Corentyne River in southeastern Guyana.
Guyana's population of 751,223 (Statistics Bureau, 2002) is diverse: the three largest groups are the Indians or Indo-Guyanese (43.5% in 2002) who have remained predominantly rural, the Africans or Afro-Guyanese (30.2%) who constitute the majority urban population, and those of mixed origin (16.7%).
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