There were adequate local and international radiotelephone communications provided via Australian facilities.
In August 2011, Criden Appi, the Director of Telecommunications (Regulatory), said that Nauru advises "only 556xxxx [x being any number from 1-9], 557xxxx, 558xxxx are in use for mobiles and there are no landlines in service".
The original configuration of the .nr TLD domain was performed by Shaun Moran of Australian ComTech Communications in 1998 as part of the first Internet connectivity on the island.
There was a lengthy process with IANA to get the .nr domain approved and assigned at the time.
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