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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 58
1.87 million (2009)
Telephones - mobile cellular World Ranking: 101
5.02 million (2009)
Telephone system
General assessment
Excellent domestic and international systems Domestic Combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership exceeds 150 per 100 persons International Country code - 64; the Southern Cross submarine cable system provides links to Australia, Fiji, and the US; satellite earth stations - 8 (1 Inmarsat - Pacific Ocean, 7 other) Broadcast media
State-owned Television New Zealand operates multiple TV networks and state-owned Radio New Zealand operates 3 radio networks and an external shortwave radio service to the South Pacific region; a small number of national commercial TV and radio stations and many regional commercial television and radio stations are available; cable and satellite TV systems are available (2008) Internet country code
.nz
Internet hosts World Ranking: 34
3.028 million (2010)
Internet users World Ranking: 62
3.4 million (2009)
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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both world wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.