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Communications in Tonga

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Telephones - main lines in use: 21,000 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 46,500 (2007)

Telephone system: general assessment: competition between Tonga Telecommunications Corporation (TCC) and Shoreline Communications Tonga (SCT) is accelerating expansion of telecommunications; SCT recently granted authority to develop high-speed digital service for telephone, Internet, and television domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 40 telephones per 100 persons; fully automatic switched network international: country code - 676; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2004)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2001)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (2004)

Internet country code: .to

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 8,400 (2007)