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Telecommunications in São Tomé and Príncipe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7696036 ↗
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The following is a list of information related to telecommunications in São Tomé and Príncipe.

Telephones – Main lines in use: 3,000 (1995)

Telephones – mobile cellular: available, working more accurately than landlines

Telephone system:

domestic: minimal system

international: satellite earth station – 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios: 38,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997)

Televisions: 23,000 (1997)

Internet service providers (ISPs): available, dial-up low quality, "broad band" (128/256) very expensive.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1998, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Telecommunications, Tomé and Príncipe can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Telecommunications in São Tomé and Príncipe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.