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Communications in Kuwait
Telephones - main lines in use: 510,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.7 million (2007)
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, open wire and fiber-optic cable;
a cellular telephone system operates throughout
Kuwait, and the country lacks pay telephones.
Even though it lacks pay-telephones, you can
easily find a phone in a local store to use for
free.
international: 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)
Radios: 1.175 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 13 (plus several
satellite channels) (1997)
Televisions: 875,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 4 (2005)
Internet users: 700,000 (2005)
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