Communications in Bahrain

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Telephones - main lines in use: 185,800 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 443,100 (2003)

Telephone system:

• general assessment: modern system
• domestic: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones
• international: country code - 973; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat (1997)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Television broadcast stations: 4 (1997)

Internet country code: .bh

Internet hosts: 1,334 (2003)

Internet users: 195,700 (2003)

[edit] References

• This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. 2004

[edit] See also

• Bahrain