Communications in Uganda
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There are a number of systems of communication in Uganda. These include a system of telephony, radio and television broadcasts as well as several newspapers.
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[edit] Telephony
There are 64,856 main telephone lines in use in Uganda, and, in 2007, 2,900,000 mobile telephones in use. Three cellular systems have been introduced in Uganda for mobile telephony.
Intercity telephone traffic is carried by wire. Microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations are used in the country also. Fixed and mobile cellular systems are used for short range traffic. International telephone communication is catered for by an Intelsat and an Inmarsat satellite earth station. There are analog links to Kenya and Tanzania.
Uganda has 18 internet service providers, providing for 125,000 internet users. The top-level domain for Uganda is "UG".
[edit] Radio and television
There are 122 FM radio stations, 7 AM and 2 shortwave. These serve 2.6 million radios.
There are 22 television broadcast stations, serving 1,785,000 televisions. There are 15,000 HD Ready telelvisions.
[edit] Newspapers
Daily newspapers in Uganda include The Observer, The Monitor and New Vision. The East African Procurement News is a weekly business newspaper.
[edit] References
- CIA. (2005, November 9) Uganda. Retrieved January 8, 2006, from https://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ug.html
- Kyeyune, H. (2004, May 21). CASE STUDY: UGANDA (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics Radiocommunications Unit New Radiocommunication Technologies for Information and Communication Technologies in Developing African Countries). Retrieved December 2, 2005, from http://wireless.ictp.trieste.it/ITU_workshop/casestudies/Uganda.doc
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