Communications in Guinea-Bissau
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Communications in Guinea-Bissau
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Telephone
s - main lines in use:
4,600 (208)
country comparison to the world: 214
Telephones - mobile cellular:
500,200 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 155
Telephone system:
small system
domestic:
combination of microwave radio relay, open-wire lines, radiotelephone, and cellular communications; fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity approached 35 per 100 in 2008
international:
country code - 245 (2008)
Radio
broadcast
stations:
AM 1, FM
4, shortwave
0 (2001)
Radios:
49,000 (1997)
Television
broadcast stations:
1 (2007)
Internet
hosts:
82 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 202
Internet users:
37,100 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 176
Country code
(Top-level domain): GW
Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....
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Telephone
Telephone
The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...
s - main lines in use:
4,600 (208)
country comparison to the world: 214
Telephones - mobile cellular:
500,200 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 155
Telephone system:
small system
domestic:
combination of microwave radio relay, open-wire lines, radiotelephone, and cellular communications; fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity approached 35 per 100 in 2008
international:
country code - 245 (2008)
Radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
broadcast
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
stations:
AM 1, FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
4, shortwave
Shortwave
Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...
0 (2001)
Radios:
49,000 (1997)
Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
broadcast stations:
1 (2007)
Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
hosts:
82 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 202
Internet users:
37,100 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 176
Country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
(Top-level domain): GW