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Encyclopedia > Communications in Mauritania

Telephones - main lines in use: 26,500 (2001) A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone Complex relay used in a telephone switching system. ...


Telephones - mobile cellular: 35,000 (2001)


Telephone system: general assessment: limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations (improvements being made)
domestic: mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 2 Arabsat Nouakchott (Arabic: نواكشوط or انواكشوط; population estimate 1999: 881,000) is the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania. ... Intelsat is the worlds largest commercial satellite communications services provider. ... Arabsat is a satellite built by Aerospatiale. ...


Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 14, shortwave 1 (2001)


Radios: 410,000 (2001)


Television broadcast stations: 1 (2002)


Televisions: 98,000 (2001)


Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5 (2001) An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...


Internet users: 7,500 (2001)


Country code (Top level domain): .mr .mr is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Mauritania. ...

See also : Mauritania

External Links

  • Satellite Internet for Mauritania

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Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1692 words)
Its coast faces the Atlantic Ocean on the west, with Senegal on the south-west, Mali on the east and south-east, Algeria on the north-east, with the Moroccan-annexed territory of Western Sahara on the north-west.
From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
Mauritania and Madagascar are the only two countries in the world not to use decimal-based currency.
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