Chinese/Taiwanese Communications, Taiwan Communications
Advertisement
Telephones - main lines in use: 13.355 million (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 25,089,600 (2003)
Telephone system: General assessment: provides telecommunications service for every business and private need domestic: thoroughly modern; completely digitalized international: country code - 886; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); submarine cables to Japan (Okinawa), Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Middle East, and Western Europe (1999)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 218, FM 333, shortwave 50 (1999)
Television broadcast stations: 29 (plus two repeaters) (1997)
Internet country code: .tw
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
Internet users: 13.8 million (2005)
Advertisement
The information here has been derived from Public Domain Sources such as the CIA World Factbook. No liability can be taken for any inaccuracies.
Tot: 0.023s; Tpl: 0.007s; cc: 3; qc: 2; dbt: 0.0044s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb
In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th...