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Basic telephony was introduced in Mauritius in October 1883. The first telephone line was set up between the Colony Governor's residence in Reduit and Government House in Port Louis. [1] The arms of Port Louis Port Louis banking district, and the main avenue leading to the Government House (seen in the background) Port Louis (pronounced locally as paw-louee) is the capital of Mauritius. ...


General Statistics


Telephones - main lines in use: 359,000 (2005)


Telephones - mobile cellular: 510,000 (2004)


Telephone system: small system with good service
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay trunk system
international: country code - 230; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean); new microwave link to Reunion; HF radiotelephone links to several countries; fiber optic submarine cable (SAT-3/WASC/SAFE) provides connectivity to Europe and Asia SAT-3/WASC or Southern Africa/West Africa Submarine Cable is a submarine communications cable linking Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the route. ... The South Africa - Far East cable is a state of the art optical fiber submarine communications cable linking Melkbosstrand, South Africa to Penang, Malaysia; it was commissioned in 2002. ...


Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 9, shortwave 0 (2002)


Radios: 420,000 (1997)


Television broadcast stations: 2 (plus several repeaters) (1997)


Televisions: 258,000 (1997)


Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2000)


Internet users: 180,000 (2005)


Country code (Top level domain): MU .mu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mauritius. ...


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See also

Mauritius Telecom is a telecommunications and internet service provider in Mauritius, a small republic in the Indian Ocean. ...

Notes and references

  1. ^ The ICT Sector in Mauritius - an Overview- Retrieved October 21, 2006

External links

  • Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICT Authority) - The Authority is the national regulator for the ICT sector and Postal Services in Mauritius
  • Mobile communications in Mauritius Mobile Africa on Mauritius
  • 2way2sat - Internet via Satellite Africa-SubSahara

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