Communications in Samoa

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Telephones - 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 (Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast 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 Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2005)

Country code (Top level domain): .ws

[edit] See also

Samoa

v • d • e Communications in Oceania

Australasia	Australia · Christmas Island · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · New Zealand¹ · Norfolk Island

Melanesia	East Timor² · Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea³ · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu

Micronesia	Federated States of Micronesia · Guam · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Nauru · Northern Mariana Islands · Palau

Polynesia	American Samoa · Cook Islands · French Polynesia · Niue · Pitcairn Islands · Samoa · Tokelau · Tonga · Tuvalu · Wallis and Futuna

¹ Often included in Polynesia. ² Often included in Southeast Asia. ³ Often included in Australasia.