This article is an overview of telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

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Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

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Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use:
187,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
17,691 (1997), 141,006 (March 2001), 303,980, i.e. 75.8 per 100 population (2004)

Telephone system:
automatic system satisfies normal requirements

domestic:
submarine cables and microwave radio relay between islands

international:
2 submarine cables; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 18, shortwave 6 (1999)

Radios:
255,000 (1997)

Amateur Radio Operator

Amateur radio operator

An amateur radio operator is an individual who typically uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other similar individuals on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service. Amateur radio operators have been granted an amateur radio...

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Approx. 500

Amateur Radio Repeater

Amateur radio repeater

An amateur radio repeater is an electronic device that receives a weak or low-level amateur radio signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power, so that the signal can cover longer distances without degradation...

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1 HF ALE EchoLink Gateway (9H1BBS-L) DTMF Access 145300 CTCSS 77 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

1 VHF/UHF 9H1IA-L Frequency Agile CrossBand Link CTCSS 151.4 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

1 VHF (9H1BBS 145.750 MHz CTCSS 77 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

1 UHF (9H1BBS 433.175 MHz CTCSS 77 Hz (Owned by G0DEO/9H1IA)

2 Microwave Amateur Television ( ATV ) Repeaters ( 9H1ATV built by 9H1LO and run by MARL and 9H1LO/r built and run by 9H1LO )

Amateur radio beacons

Radio propagation beacon

A radio propagation beacon is a radio beacon, whose purpose is the investigation of the propagation of radio signals. Most radio propagation beacons use amateur radio frequencies. They can be found on HF, VHF, UHF, and microwave frequencies...

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1 HF 6 Meater Beacon 9H1SIX 50.023 MHz JM75fv (Run by MARL Club)

1 HF 10 Meter Band CW Beacon 9H1LO/B on 28.223 MHz

1 HF 30 Meter Band QRSS Beacon 9H1LO/B on 10.140.90 MHz

1 HF 17 Meter Band PSK31 Beacon 9H1LO/B on 18.110.15 MHz

1 VHF 2 Meter Band Beacon 9H1LO/B on 144.500 MHz (currently summer months only)

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
17 (2005)

Broadband Wireless Internet Service Provider Licenses:
3 (2005)

Internet users:
59,000 (2002), 85,672, i.e. 21.3/100 inhabitants (2004)
Country code (Top level domain): MT