Kuwait's Communications | Kuwaiti Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 486,900 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 1.42 million (2003)

Telephone system: general assessment: the quality of service is excellent domestic: new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones international: country code - 965; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 2 Arabsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations: 13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)

Internet country code: .kw

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 567,000 (2003)



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