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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 173
35,300 (2009)
Telephones - mobile cellular World Ranking: 181
167,400 (2009)
Telephone system
General assessment Adequate
Domestic Combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 100 telephones per 100 persons International Country code - 685; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) Broadcast media
State-owned TV station privatized in 2008; 4 privately-owned television broadcast stations; about a half dozen privately-owned radio stations and one state-owned radio station; TV and radio broadcasts of several stations from American Samoa are available (2009) Internet country code
.ws
Internet hosts World Ranking: 121
18,074 (2010)
Internet users World Ranking: 201
9,000 (2009)
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New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.