Communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...

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Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...

Telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...

s - main lines in use: 72 764 (2011) Telephones - mobile cellular: 496 900 (2011) Telephone system:
''general assessment:'' effective system, extensive modernization from 1996-2000 following partial privatization in 1995
''domestic:'' major service provider is Cabo Verde Telecom (CVT); fiber-optic ring, completed in 2001, links all islands providing Internet access and ISDN services; cellular service introduced in 1998; broadband services launched in 2004
''international:'' country code - 238; landing point for the Atlantis-2 fiber-optic transatlantic telephone cable that provides links to South America, Senegal, and Europe; HF radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

broadcast Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...

stations: AM 0, FM 22 (and 12 repeaters), shortwave 0 (2002) Television broadcast stations: 5 (and 7 repeaters) (2008) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 4 (2008) Internet Users: 150 000 (2011) Internet Hosts: 7 308 (2007) Country code: CV

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GSM World page on Cape VerdePanAfriL10n page on Cape VerdeOperator receives third ISP licence in Cape VerdeThird of population owns cell phone, Internet has few subscribers

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