Communications in
Niue include
postal,
telephone,
internet,
press
Press may refer to:
Media
* Print media or news media, commonly called "the press"
* Printing press, commonly called "the press"
* Press (newspaper), a list of newspapers
* Press TV, an Iranian television network
People
* Press (surname), a famil ...
and
radio.
Telecommunications services
Telephone service is provided by Telecom Niue, the sole provider, which services 1,100 landlines and fixed wireless lines. It also operates a
cellular telephone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive telephone call, calls over a radio freq ...
service on the
AMPS and
GSM platforms.
Telephones – main lines in use:
1,100 (800 land line, 300 fixed wireless) (2003)
Telephones – mobile cellular:
undisclosed (excludes 300 fixed wireless) (2003)
Telephones – GSM mobile cellular:
undisclosed (2011)
Telephone system:
''domestic:''
single-line telephone system connects all villages on island
''international:''
provided by Telecom Niue (
IDD code: 683)
Radio
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
1,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (1997)
Televisions:
NA
Postal
Postal services are through the Niue Post Office.
Newspapers
Niue has only one printed newspaper, the ''
Niue Star
The ''Niue Star'' is a monthly (previously weekly) Niuean newspaper, founded on 11 June 1993. '', founded in 1993. Until 2002, the Auckland-based
Pasifika Times was also circulated in Niue.
Internet service
Niue has free Internet service through the efforts of the Internet Users Society Niue, established 1999. However users need to pay NZD$25 to a local IT company to register the
MAC address of their
WiFi card before being able to log into this WiFi network.
Alternatively, where ADSL is available, users can have connections through Telecom Niue's Internet Services located at Alofi through their island-wide distributed wireline.
.nu Internet domain
The
.nu
.nu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the island state of Niue. It was one of the first ccTLDs to be marketed to the Internet at large as an alternative to the gTLDs .com, .net, and .org. Playing on the phonetic ...
TLD is assigned to Niue.
Niue, through an outside company, registers
Internet domain names, so most .nu
web address
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed as a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifie ...
es are not actually located in Niue. They are commonly used by Danish, Dutch and Swedish websites, because in those languages 'nu' means “
now”.
Niue was the first country in the world to plan on offering free nationwide
WiFi internet access
Internet access is the ability of individuals and organizations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, and other devices; and to access services such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is sold by Internet ...
, using the funds provided by the domain registrations. 79.6% of Niueans were internet users in 2022.
References
External links
CIA World Factbook 2007: NiueInternet Users Society NiueNiue Computer Society (Inc.)
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