NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Communications in Uganda

Telephone system: seriously inadequate; three cellular systems have been introduced, but a sharp increase in the number of main lines is essential; e-mail and Internet services are available
domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile cellular systems for short range traffic
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog links to Kenya and Tanzania This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Cellular redirects here. ... An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Microwave radio relay is the transmission of long distance telephone calls and television programs by highly directional radio microwaves that are received and sent on from one booster station to another on an optical path. ... A satellite earth station is a communications facility with a microwave radio transmitting and receiving antenna and required receiving and transmitting equipment for communicating with satellites. ... Intelsat is the worlds largest commercial satellite communications services provider. ... INMARSAT, is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979, originally as an intergovernmental organisation. ...

Radio broadcast stations: AM 19, FM 4, shortwave 5 (1998)

Radios: 2.6 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)

Televisions: 315,000 (1997)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (1999)

Satellite Internet in Uganda

Newspapers: East African Procurement News (Business Weekly), The Observer (Weekly), Monitor (Daily), New Vision (Daily). (4) (2004)

Country code (Top level domain): UG

See also : Uganda

Categories: Communications by country | Communications in Uganda

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