Telecommunications systems in
Samoa include telephone, radio, television and internet.
In 2009, the Samoa-
American Samoa (SAS) Cable provided inter-island communication, as well as enabling users in Samoa to access the
ASH cable capacity and connect to the global networks. While ASH Cable and SAS Cable are much smaller than the huge systems across the North Pacific, they will provide more than 40 times the capacity currently in use in both island groups combined.
Telephone
Main lines in use:
8,000 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
>30,000 (2005)
Telephone system:
''domestic:''
GSM mobile phone network covering 90% of the country (2006) and a landline system covering 65% of country.
''international:''
satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat
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(
Pacific Ocean)
Radio
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 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (2005)
Radios:
90% of 23.098 households had at least one radio (2001 census)
Television
Broadcast stations:
3 (in process of switching from
PAL broadcast standard to
NTSC) (2005)
Televisions:
15,603 (2001 census)
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
3 (2005)
(Top level domain): .ws, .as
References
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