In large part thanks to international aid programs, Moroni has international telecommunications service. Telephone service, however, is largely limited to the islands' few towns.
Overview
Telephones – main lines in use:
5,000 (1995)
Telephones – mobile cellular:
0 (1995)
Telephone system:
sparse system of
microwave
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radio relay and HF radiotelephone communication stations
''domestic:''
HF radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay
CMDA mobile network (Huri, operated by Comores Telecom)
''international:''
HF radiotelephone communications to
Madagascar
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and
Réunion
Réunion (; french: La Réunion, ; previously ''Île Bourbon''; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, La Rényon) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately east of the island ...
Radio
broadcast
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stations:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
90,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
0 (1998)
Televisions:
1,000 (1997)
Internet Service Provider
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s (ISPs): 1 (1999)
Country code (Top-level domain): KM
Special projects
In October 2011 the State of Qatar launched a special program for the construction of a
wireless network
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and business installations avoid the costly process of introducing c ...
to interconnect the three islands of the archipelago, by means of low cost, repeatable technology. The project has been developed by
Qatar University and
Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of prof. Mazen Hasna and prof.
Daniele Trinchero
Daniele Trinchero (born December 23, 1968) is an Italian engineer and inventor who founded, in late 2004, with Riccardo Stefanelli, the iXem Labs at Politecnico di Torino, to develop new wireless technologies for applications in Environmental ...
, with a major participation of local actors (Comorian Government, NRTIC, University of the Comoros). The project has been referred as an example of
technology transfer
Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...
and Sustainable Inclusion in
developing countries
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External links
GSM World page on the ComorosPanAfriL10n page on the Comoros
References
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