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Australia Communications:

Telephones — main lines in use:
10.82 million (2003 est.)

Telephones — mobile cellular:
14.35 million (2003 est.)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international service
domestic: domestic satellite system; much use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones
international: country code - 61; submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean), 2 Inmarsat (Indian and Pacific Ocean regions) (1998)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 262 , FM 345 , shortwave 1 (1998 est.)

Television broadcast stations:
104 (1997 est.)

Internet country code:
.au

Internet hosts:
2,847,763 (2003 est.)

Internet users:
9.47 million (2002 est.)



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Washington D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2005
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