ephone 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)

Radios:

61,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

3 (2004)

Televisions:

2,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.to

Internet hosts:

19,231 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2000)

Internet users:

8,400 (2007)

Transportation
Tonga

Airports:

6 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 680 km
paved: 184 km
unpaved: 496 km (2000)

Merchant marine:

total: 13
by type: bulk carrier 1, cargo 8, carrier 1, liquefied gas 1,
passenger/cargo 1, refrigerated cargo 1
foreign-owned: 4 (Australia 1, Cyprus 1, Switzerland 1, UK 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Nuku'alofa

Military
Tonga

Military branches:

Tonga Defense Services (TDS): Land Force (Royal Guard), Naval Force
(includes Royal Marines, Air Wing) (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 32,053
females age 16-49: 30,981 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 25,520
females age 16-49: 26,893 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 1,464
female: 1,412 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

0.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Transnational Issues
Tonga

Disputes - international:

none

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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@Trinidad and Tobago

Introduction
Trinidad and Tobago

Background:

First colonized by the Spanish, the islands came under British
control in the early 19th century. The islands' sugar industry was