Communications in Iran
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The government runs the broadcast media, which includes three national radio stations and two national television networks, as well as dozens of local radio and television stations. In 2000 there were 252 radios and 158 television sets in use for every 1,000 residents. There were 219 telephone lines and 110 personal computers for every 1,000 residents. Computers for home use became more affordable in the mid-1990s, and since then demand for access to the Internet has increased. In 1998 the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications began selling Internet accounts to the general public.
In 2006, the Iranian telecom industry's revenues were estimated at $1.2 trillion or approximately 3 percent of the gross world product.
This a list of communication means in the country of Iran.
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[edit] Press
The press in Iran is privately owned and reflects a diversity of political and social views. A special court has authority to monitor the print media and may suspend publication or revoke the licenses of papers or journals that a jury finds guilty of publishing antireligious material, slander, or information detrimental to the national interest. Since the late 1990s the court has shut down many pro-reform newspapers and other periodicals. Most Iranian newspapers are published in Persian, but newspapers in English and other languages also exist. The most widely circulated periodicals are based in Tehrān. Popular daily and weekly newspapers include Ettela’at, Kayhan, Resalat, and the Tehran Times (an English-language paper).
- See also: List of newspapers in Iran
[edit] Telephone
Inadequate but currently being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently connected
[edit] Domestic
As a result of heavy investing in the telephone system since 1994, the number of long thousands of mobile cellular subscribers are being served; moreover, the technical level of the system has been raised by the installation of thousands of digital swiches
[edit] International
HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; submarine fiber-optic cable to UAE with access to Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); Trans Asia Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion to Georgia and Azerbaijan; satellite earth stations - 9 Intelsat and 4 Inmarsat; full Internet service is available in all major cities and it is very rapidly increasing. Many small towns and even some villages now have full Internet access.
[edit] Statistics
- Landlines: 18.986 million (2005)
- Mobile: 8.5 million in March 2005, from 4.3 million in 2004. This is expected to reach 15 million by Feb 2007
[edit] Radio
- Radio broadcast stations: AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5 (1998)
- Number of Radios: 22 million (2005)
[edit] Television
- Television broadcast stations: 28 (plus 450 low-power repeaters) (1997)
- Number of Televisions: 9 million (2005)
[edit] Internet
The internet is being used in Iran more and more. The Internet has become an expanding means to accessing information and self-expression among the younger population. Iran is also the world's fourth largest country of bloggers.
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs): numerous (2002)
- Country code (Top-level domain): IR
- Internet users: 11.7 million(2005)
- See also: Broadband Internet access worldwide#Iran
[edit] Privatization
Based on Note C of the general policies of the constitution's Article 44, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced that it will float the shares of affiliated companies such as Mobile Telecommunications Company in the stock market.
Under the general policies of Article 44, telecom companies are categorized in four groups as follows:
Group One: Among the 30 provincial telecom networks, the fixed telecom networks pertain to those of Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, Hamedan, Ahvaz, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan and East Azarbaijan.
The first group concerns fixed line telecom networks, including those in the public sector with 30 subsidiary telecom networks in provinces. The non-governmental sector includes companies such as Iraphone, Novin, Zahi Kish, Kouh-e Nour, Montazeran Adlgostar and Pouya Ertebat with each having hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Group Two: The second group concerns mobile telephone networks. In the public sector, they include the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI). In the non-governmental sector, they include telecommunications companies such as Omran Kish, Isfahan, Rafsanjan Complex and Irancell.
Group Three: There is only one public network in the data network sector, namely Data and Telecommunications Company of Iran which is considered a basic telecom network in terms of mobile networks and Shomal IT Company. In the non-governmental sector, there are over 100 companies with a shared data network.
Group Four: The subsidiary telecom network named Subsidiary Telecommunications Company is another basic telecom network. They are completely owned by the state and not targeted for privatization.
[edit] See also
- Telecommunication Company of Iran
- Iran Electronics Industries (IEI)
- Shetab Banking System
- List of Major Iranian Companies
- Transportation in Iran
- KAPDA
