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Encyclopedia > Communications in Liberia

Telephones - main lines in use: 6,700 (2000)


Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1998)


Telephone system: telephone and telegraph service via microwave radio relay network; main center is Monrovia
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)


Cellular Phone Networks: 2 (2005)
Lonestar (GSM 900)
Omega Communications (GSM 900)


Newspapers:
http://www.TheLiberianTimes.com
The Liberian Analyst Corporation
The Daily Observer


Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 7, shortwave 2 (2001)


Radios: 790,000 (1997)


Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus four low-power repeaters) (2001)


Televisions: 70,000 (1997)


Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2001)


Internet users: 500 (2000)


Country code (Top-level domain): LR

See also : Liberia

  Results from FactBites:
 
Liberia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1898 words)
Liberia fronts on the Atlantic Ocean for some 350 mi (560 km) on the southwest and is bordered on the northwest by Sierra Leone, on the north by Guinea, and on the east by Côte d’Ivoire.
Liberia was founded in 1821, when officials of the American Colonization Society were granted possession of Cape Mesurado by local De chiefs for the settlement of freed American slaves.
Liberia was involved in efforts to end the W African slave trade.
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