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Home > Haiti Communication > Haiti Telephone System Haiti Telephone System The telephone system in Haiti is still inadequate. there were only about 130,000 landline telephones in Haiti in 2002. with a country of about 9 million people, can you spell "Luxury"?
Haiti rank in telephone main line use compared to other countries in the world
Compared to other countries use ot land line telephones, Haiti is ranked #127 out of 203 countries with China, not the United States being #1
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Here is what the CIA World fact book has about Haiti's telephone system:
- general assessment: domestic facilities barely adequate; international facilities slightly better
- domestic: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service
- international country code - 509
- satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean
About Haiti's telephone system as printed in country-data.com
The Haitian Telecommunications Company (Telecommunications d'Haïti--TELECO), under the Ministry of Public Works, Transport, and Communications, was responsible for the nation's telephone service and other telecommunications.
The government owned 96 percent of TELECO, which modernized the national telephone industry in the late 1980s, with French financing, by introducing digital dialing to the Port-au-Prince area.
The capital also enjoyed direct dialing to the United States and Europe, via a satellite station at Sabourin, although at very high rates.
Telephones, however, continued to be a luxury item.
In the mid1980s , more than 80 percent of the country's 39,000 telephones were in Port-au-Prince, where only about 20 percent of Haiti's population lived.
Telephone service to provincial cities was so unreliable that many rural areas relied on two-way radios.
Rapid expansion of the telephone system was expected by the early 1990s, when the number of telephones in Port-au-Prince was slated nearly to double from 39,000 to 69,000 and the number outside the capital, more than to triple from 7,000 to 23,000.
About 400 telex lines and an elementary mail service functioned in the late 1980s.
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