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China Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
263 million (2003 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
269 million (2003 est.)
Telephone system:
general assessment:
domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns
domestic:
interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
international:
country code - 86; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 369 , FM 259 , shortwave 45 (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations and nearly 3,000 are local city stations) (1997 est.)
Internet country code:
.cn
Internet hosts:
160,421 (2003 est.)
Internet users:
94 million (2004 est.)
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