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Telecommunications in Honduras

Telecommunications in Honduras is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Telecommunications in Honduras rather than just read about it. In short: Telecommunication in Honduras started in 1876 when the first telegraph was introduced, continued development with the telephone in 1891, radio in 1928, television in 1959, the Internet in the early 1990s, and cellphones in 1996. Radio Radio stations: Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Telecommunication in Honduras started in 1876 when the first telegraph was introduced, continued development with the telephone in 1891, radio in 1928, television in 1959, the Internet in the early 1990s, and cellphones in 1996.

Radio

Radio stations: Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network. There are also roughly 300 privately owned radio stations (2007). Radios: 2.45 million (1997) The first radio station in Honduras was Tropical Radio, which started operations in 1928.

Television

Televisions stations: Multiple privately owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by multiple cable TV networks (2007). Television sets: 570,000 (1997). Television in Honduras includes both local and foreign channels, normally distributed by cable. The Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL) adopted the ATSC standard for digital terrestrial television broadcasting in January 2007. The first digital high definition TV station, CampusTv, was founded by Universidad de San Pedro Sula.

Telephones

Calling code: +504 International call prefix: 00 Main lines: 610,000 lines in use, 91st in the world (2012). Mobile cellular: 7.4 million lines, 93rd in the world (2012). Telephone system: fixed-line connections increasing but still limited; competition among multiple providers of mobile-cellular services is contributing to a sharp increase in subscribership; beginning in 2003, private sub-operators allowed to provide fixed-lines in order to expand telephone coverage contributing to a small increase in fixed-line teledensity; mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 100 per 100 persons; connected to Central American Microwave System (2011), a trunk microwave radio relay system that links the countries of Central America and Mexico with each other. Satellite earth stations: 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean). Communications cables: Landing point for both: the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System (ARCOS-1) linking US, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Bahamas, and the MAYA-1 linking the US, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Hondutel, created in 1976, is the state owned telecommunications company in Honduras. The first cellular company in Honduras, Celtel (now Tigo), started operations in 1996. Megatel (now Claro) started in 2001, Honducel in 2007, and Digicel (now América Móvil) in 2008.

Internet Top-level domain: .hn Internet users: 1.5 million users, 105th in the world; 18.1% of the population, 147th in the world (2012). Fixed broadband: 64,216 subscriptions, 108th in the world; 0.8% of the population, 144th in the world (2012). Wireless broadband: 347,217, 103rd in the world; 4.2% of the population, 115th in the world (2012). Internet hosts: 30,955 hosts, 107th in the world (2012). IPv4: 143,616 addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 17.3 addresses per 1000 people (2012). Internet service providers: 100+ ISPs (2005). The Internet has been used in Honduras since 1990 and is common in all the major centers of population. Broadband Internet access is also common. All major media have an Internet presence. Hondutel provides dial-up Internet access.

Internet censorship and surveillance There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitors e-mail or Internet chat rooms without judicial oversight. The constitution and laws provide for freedom of speech and press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice. The constitution and law generally prohibit arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence. Four journalists were killed during 2012, compared with five in 2011. Reports of harassment of journalists and social communicators (persons not employed as journalists, but who serve as bloggers or conduct public outreach for NGOs) continued to rise. There also were multiple reports of intimidation of members of the media and their families. Government officials at all levels denounced violence and threats of violence against members of the media and social communicators. During 2012 the efforts of the Special Victims Unit (SVU) created in January 2011 to address violent crimes against vulnerable communities, including journalists, led to seven arrests and one prosecution in cases involving killings of journalists and social communicators. Members of the media and NGOs stated that the press “self-censored” due to fear of reprisal from organized crime.

See also Media of Honduras Honduras portal

References

This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2014 ed.). CIA. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of State.

External links NIC.hn, registry for the .hn domain.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Telecommunications in Honduras

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Telecommunications in Honduras claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Telecommunications in Honduras before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Telecommunications in Honduras ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Telecommunications in Honduras

In research: Telecommunications in Honduras appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Telecommunications in Honduras in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Telecommunications in Honduras is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Communications in Honduras, Internet censorship by country, Telecommunications by country, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Telecommunications in Honduras outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Telecommunications in Honduras in 20 minutes

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Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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