Telephone system: general assessment: adequate facilities
domestic: minimal system international: satellite earth station
- 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Definition: This entry includes a
brief general assessment of the system with details on the
domestic and international components. The following terms and
abbreviations are used throughout the entry: Africa ONE - a
fiber-optic submarine cable link encircling the continent of
Africa. Arabsat - Arab Satellite Communications Organization
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Autodin - Automatic Digital Network (US
Department of Defense). CB - citizen's band mobile radio
communications. cellular telephone system - the telephones in
this system are radio transceivers, with each instrument having
its own private radio frequency and sufficient radiated power to
reach the booster station in its area (cell), from which the
telephone signal is fed to a telephone exchange. Central
American Microwave System - a trunk microwave radio relay system
that links the countries of Central Ame