A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone The telephone or phone (Greek: by John Munro, Project Gutenberg edition [1]. Non-electric telephones There is a sense in which a telephone is any mechanism capable of conduction sound for a great distance. The very earliest telephones were mechanical devices... Telephones - main lines in use: 13.03 million (October 2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 22.43 million (Jun 2002)

Telephone system:
domestic: provides modern telecommunications service for every business and private need; completely digitalized
international: For other uses, please see Satellite (disambiguation) A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). The term is often used to describe an artificial satellite (as opposed to natural satellites, or moons). Because all objects exert gravity, the motion of the primary object is also... satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); submarine cables to Official language Japanese Capital Tokyo Largest City Tokyo Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 60th 377,835 km² 0.8% Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Density Ranked 10th 127,333,002 337/km² GDP  - Total (PPP, 2005)  - Total (nominal)  ... Japan (Okinawa), The Republic of the Philippines is an island nation consisting of an archipelago of 7,107 islands, lying in the tropical western Pacific Ocean about 100 kilometers southeast of mainland Asia. Spain (1565-1898) and the United States (1898-1946), colonized the country and have been the largest influences on... Philippines, Internet TLD .gu Calling Code 1-671 The Territory of Guam () came from the Philippines to Guam and killed almost the entire native bird population on the previously snake-free island. This snake has no natural predators on the island; nowadays, Guam is one of the areas with the highest... Guam, Internet TLD .sg Calling code +65 1 1 02 when dialling from Malaysia The Republic of Singapore (Chinese: 新加坡共和国; pinyin: The Merlion is the national emblem of Singapore. Its landmark statue, once at the Merlion Park, was relocated to the front of the Fullerton Hotel... Singapore, Hong Kong (香港; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2; Yale: heūng góng; pinyin: Xiānggǎng; Wade-Giles: Hsiang-kang) is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the Peoples Republic of China. (The other one is Macau.) Administratively, the name Hong Kong... Hong Kong, The Republic of Indonesia, the worlds largest archipelago, is located between the Southeast Asian peninsula and Australia, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populous overall. It has had free elections since the Indonesian 1998... Indonesia, Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/ Oceania. It also includes a number of secondary islands, the largest of which is Tasmania, an Australian State. Australia is... Australia, A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a... Middle East, and Western World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. It is conventionally considered a continent, which, in this case, is more of a cultural distinction than a geographic one. ( National Geographic, however, officially recognises... Europe ( 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the ) March 29 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10000 mark at 10006.78. April April 1 - Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, part of the Northwest Territories becomes Canadas... 1999)

Radio broadcast stations: Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. In most of the world, mediumwave serves as the most common band for broadcasting. The standard AM broadcast band is 525kHz to 1715kHz in North America, but remains... AM 218, FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity broadcast radio sound. History of FM radio in the US . This multiplexes the left and right audio signal channels in a manner that is compatible with mono sound, using a sum... FM 333, Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3,000 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) 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 in use at that... shortwave 50 (1999)

Radios: 16 million ( 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the skull (see Human evolution). April April 6 - Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a... 1994)

Television broadcast stations: 29 (plus two repeaters) ( 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame January 9 - Yachtsman Tony Bullimore found alive five days after his boat capsized... 1997)

Televisions: 8.8 million ( 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. January 28 Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion. Gunmen hold at least 400 children... 1998)

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. Most telecommunications operators are ISPs. They provide services like internet transit, domain name registration and hosting, dial-up access, leased line access and colocation. Generally, an ISP charges a monthly... Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 15 (1999)

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1. Lists of country codes by country A - B... Country code (Top level domain): TW

Compare to: Telephone Telephones - main lines in use: 135 million (2000 est.) Telephones - mobile cellular: 329 million (2004 Q4) - expected to hit 402 million by end of 2005 Telephone system: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns... Communications in Mainland China

See also

• Map of Taiwan The island of Taiwan (Traditional: 臺灣, Simplified: 台湾, Pinyin: Táiwān, Wade-Giles: Tai-wan, Taiwanese: Tâi-oân) is located off the coast of mainland China in the Pacific Ocean. It is also known by its Portuguese name Ilha Formosa... Taiwan, The Republic of China ( Traditional Chinese: 中華民國; Simplified Chinese: 中华民国; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHuá MínGuó, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó) is a multiparty democratic state that is composed of the... Republic of China
• Telephone Telephones - main lines in use: 135 million (2000 est.) Telephones - mobile cellular: 329 million (2004 Q4) - expected to hit 402 million by end of 2005 Telephone system: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns... Communications in China
• This is a list of television channels that broadcast in the Chinese language. Mainland China China Central Television (CCTV) CCTV-News CCTV-1 CCTV-2 CCTV-3 CCTV-4 CCTV-5 CCTV-6 CCTV-7 CCTV-8 CCTV-10 CCTV-11 CCTV-12 CCTV-Children CCTV-Music Note: CCTV-9... List of Chinese language television channels

External links

• Ministry Of Transportation And Communications (http://www.motc.gov.tw/)