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Papua New Guinea Communications 2014

SOURCE: 2014 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Papua New Guinea Communications 2014
SOURCE: 2014 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 28, 2014

Telephones - main lines in use: 139,000 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 140
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.709 million (2012)
country comparison to the world: 134
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: services are minimal; facilities provide radiotelephone and telegraph, coastal radio, aeronautical radio, and international radio communication services
domestic: access to telephone services is not widely available although combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity has increased to roughly 40 per 100 persons
international: country code - 675; submarine cables to Australia and Guam; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); international radio communication service (2009)

Broadcast media:
2 TV stations, 1 commercial station operating since the late 1980s and 1 state-run station launched in 2008; satellite and cable TV services are available; state-run National Broadcasting Corporation operates 3 radio networks with multiple repeaters and about 20 provincial stations; several commercial radio stations with multiple transmission points as well as several community stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters are accessible (2009)

Internet country code:
.pg

Internet hosts:
5,006 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 145
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
125,000 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 152
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Papua New Guinea on this page is re-published from the 2014 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Papua New Guinea Communications 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Papua New Guinea Communications 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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