Residents on Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall
Islands, will be able to access broadband internet services for the
first time following an agreement between the Marshall Islands National
Telecommunications Authority (NTA) and a US Army contractor. Radio New
Zealand cites the
NTA’s general manager Tommy
Kijiner Junior as saying that the authority will provide additional
bandwidth from Guam and the US to extend broadband access to households
on Kwajalein Atoll, while a contractor working at the base will be
responsible for installing the hardware in each home. At present, the
roughly 2,000 residents living at the US Army’s Reagan Test Site in the
Marshall Islands have to rely on dial-up internet connections.
In 2010, the
Majuro and
Kwajalein Atoll were connected to the Internet using the
HANTRU-1 undersea cable to provide high-speed bandwidth. Faster Internet service was rolled out to Majuro and Ebeye on April 1, 2010.
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Telephone
Telephones - main lines in use:
3,000 (1994)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
280 (1994)
Telephone system:
telex services
domestic:
Majuro Atoll and
Ebeye and
Kwajalein
islands have regular, seven-digit, direct-dial telephones; other
islands interconnected by shortwave radio, telephone (used mostly for
government purposes)
international:
satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (
Pacific Ocean); US Government satellite communications system on Kwajalein
Radio
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)
Stations included are:
Radios:
NA
Television
Television broadcast stations:
3 (of which two are US military stations) (1997) (stations are:
MBC-TV,
CPN (AFN) - Central Pacific Network (Channel 1) -
CPN (AFN) - Central Pacific Network (Channel 2))
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1
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Country code (Top level domain): MH
Not active since 1996-1997 when the ISP "MH" was founded, no websites are currently registered in domain
Authority
The majority of communication is under the responsibility of
Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority.
