Communications in Mozambique

Telephones - main lines in use:69,700 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:2,360,000(2007)

Telephone system:
"general assessment:"fair system but not available generally (less than 1 main line per 100 persons)
"domestic:"the system consists of open-wire lines and trunk connection by microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
"international:"country code - 258; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:AM 13, FM 17, shortwave 11 (2001)

Radios:730,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:1 (2001)

Televisions:90,000 (1997)

Internet

TDM, Mozambique's national supplier, offers the following options:

Mozambique's national supplier, TDM, offers the following:

128/64 kbit/s with 1 GB cap for R276 (~40 US$)128/64 kbit/s with 3 GB cap for R414 (~60 US$)128/64 kbit/s with 4 GB cap for R525 (~75 US$)256/128 kbit/s with 7 GB cap for R663 (~95 US$)512/256 kbit/s with 10 GB cap for R829 (119 US$)1024/512 kbit/s with 14 GB cap for R1160 (165 US$)2048/1024 kbit/s with 20 GB cap for R1492 (214 US$)

An additional 1 GB is available, usable only between midnight and 6am. Installation fees come to R166 (~24 US$) and additional bandwidth costs R18 (~2.60 US$) per additional 100 MB. [http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1477]

Mozambique was the first African country to offer broadband wireless services through WiMax.

Internet hosts:6,985 (2006)

Internet users:138,000 (2005)

Country code (Top level domain): MZ


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