United Arab Emirates Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
1,135,800 (2003 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
2,972,300 (2003 est.)
Telephone system:
general assessment:
modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubai
domestic:
microwave radio relay, fiber optic and coaxial cable
international:
country code - 971; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; submarine cables to Qatar, Bahrain, India, and Pakistan; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 13 , FM 8 , shortwave 2 (2004 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
15 (2004 est.)
Internet country code:
.ae
Internet hosts:
56,283 (2004 est.)
Internet users:
1,110,200 (2003 est.)
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