Mass media in
Laos are based on a network of telephone lines and
radiotelephone communications in remote areas, as well as
mobile phone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whi ...
infrastructure. The system is not well-developed.
Infrastructure and statistics
In 1997 there were 25,000 telephone lines in use, and in 2007 there were 850,000 mobile cellular subscribers. Laos is served by a Russian
Intersputnik satellite that covers the
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by t ...
region.
In 1998 there were 12
AM stations and one
FM station. In 1997 there were an estimated 730,000 radios in the country. In 2011 Laos had three television channels. In 2000 there was one
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privat ...
, by 2002 serving about 10,000 users. The
top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in ...
for Laos is
.la
.la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos.
Although the .la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, subdomains have been delegated to some organizations outside Laos.
History
The LA Names Corporation, b ...
.
See also
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Telephone numbers in Laos
Examples
* Calling within Vientiane with landline to number 021-123456 dial: 123456
* Calling to Vientiane to Champasak number 041-123456 dial: 041-123456 (with extra fee for calling to other provinces)
* Calling to Vientiane
Vientiane ( ...
*
Internet in Laos
References
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