Question: Are communications services in Somalia mostly concentrated in the public or private sector?
Answer: private

Question: Communications in Somalia are mostly concentrated in what sector?
Answer: private

Question: How many official rado iand TV networks does the governemt of Somalia run?
Answer: two

Question: What type of media decreases and internet connectivity increases?
Answer: Print media

Question: What types of media increases as internet connectivity and access increases?
Answer: radio stations and online portals

Question: What year is the postal service in Somalia set to relaunch?
Answer: 2013

Question: Who funded the new telecommunications firms in Somalia?
Answer: Somali entrepreneurs

Question: China, Korea, and Europe lent what to the creation of the new firms.
Answer: expertise

Question: What do the new telecommunications firms in Somalia offer that is not available in many other parts of the continent?
Answer: affordable mobile phone and internet services

Question: Money transfers and wireless internet are two things that customers can now accomplish via what?
Answer: mobile phones

Question: When the civil war began, many telecomunications companies were created to provide missing what?
Answer: infrastructure

Question: Sprint, ITT, and Telenor are examples of what?
Answer: multinational corporations

Question: Who provides service to every City, town, and hamlet in Somalia?
Answer: Somali telecommunication companies

Question: aproximately how many main lines are there per 1000 people?
Answer: 25

Question: what is another word for availability of telephone lines?
Answer: tele-density

Question: How much does Hormuud Telecom gross per year?
Answer: $40 million

Question: What year did Dahabhiil acquire the majority of Somtal network?
Answer: 2008

Question: Where is Somtal network located?
Answer: Hargeisa

Question: Buying Somtal Network allowed Dahabshiil to expand into what type of banking?
Answer: mobile banking

Question: STC stands for what?
Answer: Somali Telecommunication Company

Question: The STC allows its customers to communicate across how many networks?
Answer: three

Question: Investing in what Industry is a sign that Somalia's economy is continuing to improve?
Answer: telecom industry

Question: What sector provides key communication services?
Answer: telecom

Question: What year was the national Communications act enacted?
Answer: 2012

Question: What Act clears the way for a National Communications Regulator?
Answer: the National Communications Act

Question: What types of stakeholders consulted on the bill to enact the National Communications Act?
Answer: academic and civil society

Question: The National Communications Act is expected to create and invironment favorable for what?
Answer: investment

Question: Continued infrastructure development results in more efficient what?
Answer: service delivery

Question: What is the name of the Somali postal service?
Answer: Somali Post

Question: What is the name of the National postal service of Somalia?
Answer: Somali Post

Question: When was the infrastructure of the postal service destroyed?
Answer: during the civil war

Question: What airport is home to the Emirates post mail hub?
Answer: Dubai International

Question: How many phases made up the reconstruction plan for the Somali Post?
Answer: three

Question: Over what period of time did the reconstruction plan for the Somali Post cover?
Answer: ten years

Question: How many branch offices will be constructed in the capital in phase one of the reconstruction plan?
Answer: 16

Question: How many branch offices will be creted in general bases?
Answer: 17

Question: What year did Somali authorities rejoin the Universal Postal Union?
Answer: 2012

Question: What year did postal service in Somalia resume?
Answer: 2013

Question: Who is helping the Somali Postal service reach its capacity?
Answer: Universal Postal Union

Question: What type of assistance does the postal union provide?
Answer: technical

Question: What type of equipment does the postal union provide?
Answer: basic mail processing equipment

Question: When was Radio Mogadishu established?
Answer: during the colonial period

Question: What languages di Radio Mogadishu originally broadcast in?
Answer: Somali and Italian

Question: What countrys assistance helped Radio Mogadishu modernize?
Answer: Russian assistance

Question: What type of services were offered in Somali, Amharic, and Oromo?
Answer: home service

Question: Mustaqbal Media Corporation is based where?
Answer: Mogadishu

Question: In what year was Shabelle Media network awarded the media of the year prize?
Answer: 2010

Question: How many short wave radio stations broadcast from the capital?
Answer: one

Question: About how many private radio stations does the region of Puntland have?
Answer: six

Question: What is the former name of Radio Gaalkacyo?
Answer: Radio Free Somalia

Question: Where does RAdio Gaalkacyo operate from?
Answer: Galkayo

Question: What province is Galkayo located in?
Answer: Mudug province

Question: How many government operated radio stations exist in the Somaliland region?
Answer: one

Question: What TV station is the main public service broadcaster in Somalia?
Answer: Somali National Television

Question: Where is Somali National Television located?
Answer: Mogadishu

Question: What year did experimental broadcasts of Somali National Television begin?
Answer: 2011

Question: When was Somali Nation Television officially re-launched?
Answer: April 4, 2011

Question: Howmany hours a day does SNTV broadcast?
Answer: 24

Question: Horn Cable Television and Universal TV are examples of what?
Answer: private television networks

Question: What type of Tv startions replay AL=jazeera and CNN?
Answer: private television networks

Question: Where does SBC TV broadcast from?
Answer: Bosaso

Question: What is the commercial capital of Puntland?
Answer: Bosaso

Question: Howmany governemnt run channels do Puntland and Somaliland regions have?
Answer: one

Question: Where was The Mogadishu Times published?
Answer: Mogadishu

Question: What year did free media outlets begin to expand?
Answer: 2003

Question: Advertisers switched from print ads to what to reach more customers?
Answer: radio and online commercials

Question: Whos is a former editor with The Delka Broadsheet?
Answer: Issa Farah

Question: What is the IST?
Answer: Information Support Team

Question: As of December 2012, Somalia did not have systematic what?
Answer: internet blocking or filtering

Question: What internet standards were also unlear as of December, 2012?
Answer: content standards online

Question: What years was the first ISP established in Somalia?
Answer: 1999

Question: Somalia was one of the last countries on what continent to get connected tothe internet?
Answer: Africa

Question: In 2009, what percent of Somalia has internet coverage?
Answer: 53%

Question: The quickest growing local businesses in Somalia are what types of businesses?
Answer: internet commerce and telephony

Question: What was the numbe rof Somali internet users in the year 2000?
Answer: 200

Question: What was the number of internet users in the year 2011?
Answer: 106,000

Question: Goes the number of internet users in Somalia continue to rise or fall?
Answer: rise

Question: What was the number of mobile subscribers in Somalia in 2008?
Answer: 512,682

Question: What is the estimated number of mobile subscribers in Somalia in 2015?
Answer: 6.1 million

Question: What is the STA?
Answer: Somali Telecommunication Association

Question: What sector does the STC oversee?
Answer: ICT sector

Question: In 2006, who reported that there were over half a million internet users within the territory?
Answer: STA

Question: How many established ISP were within the territory in 2006?
Answer: 22

Question: How many cyber cafes were withing the territory in 2006?
Answer: 234