Kuwait Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
486,900 (2003 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
1.42 million (2003 est.)
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 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997 est.)
Internet country code:
.kw
Internet hosts:
3,437 (2001 est.)
Internet users:
567,000 (2003 est.)
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