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The first Telegraph line in Ethiopia was constructed in the years 1897 - 1899 between the cities of Harar and the capital Addis Ababa . This was extended in 1904 by a line that ran from Addis Ababa through Tigray into Eritrea and to Massawa ; and the next year by a line again from Addis Ababa to Gore in the province of Illubabor and Jimma in Kaffa . The first telephones were brought by Ras Makonnen from Italy in 1890 , and connected between the Palace and the Imperial treasury; the sound of disembodied voices frightened the local priests, who thought it was the work of Demon s. The Emperor Menelik II responded to their protests with disdain, and later used the telephone to give orders to his provincial governors. 1 Emperor Haile Selassie had begun the process of introducing Radio transmitters to the country for civilian and military use in the years before the Italian Invasion . 2 Telephone s - main lines in use: 435,000 (2003) Telephones - mobile Cellular Phone s: 97,800 (2003) Telephone system: open Wire and Microwave Radio relay system adequate for government use ''domestic:'' open wire; microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF , VHF , and UHF frequencies; two domestic Satellites provide the national trunk service ''international:'' open wire to Sudan and Djibouti ; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean )
''' 8, FM 0, shortwave 1 (2003) Radios : 11.75 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 plus 24 repeaters (2002) Televisions: 320,000 (1997) Internet hosts: 19 (2003) Internet users: 75,000 (2003) Country Code (TLD) : ET NOTES # Chris Proutky, ''Empress Taytu and Menelik II: Ethiopia 1883-1910'' (Trenton: The Red Sea Press, 1986), pp. 237ff. # Richard Pankhurst, ''Economic History of Ethiopia (1800 - 1935)'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University Press, 1968), pp. 341, 606. : SEE ALSO |
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