Taiwan Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
13.36 million (2003 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
25,089,600 (2003 est.)
Telephone system:
general assessment:
provides telecommunications service for every business and private need
domestic:
thoroughly modern; completely digitalized
international:
country code - 886; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); submarine cables to Japan (Okinawa), Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Middle East, and Western Europe (1999)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 218 , FM 333 , shortwave 50 (1999 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
29 (plus two repeaters) (1997 est.)
Internet country code:
.tw
Internet hosts:
2,777,085 (2003 est.)
Internet users:
13.8 million (2005 est.)
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