Telecommunications in Bahrain
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Telephonic services
Telephones - main lines in use: 194,200 (2006)
county comparison to the world: 124Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,116,000 (2007)
- county comparison to the world: 132
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; landing point for the Fire-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth station - 1 (2007)
Broadcast radio
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)
Broadcast television
Television broadcast stations: 4 (1997)
Internet service
Main article: Internet in BahrainInternet country code: .bh
Internet hosts: 2,621 (2008)
- country comparison to the world: 135
Internet users: 250,000 (2007)
- country comparison to the world: 124
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook document "2009 edition".Telecommunications in Asia Sovereign
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- Armenia
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- India
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- Japan
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- Laos
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- Thailand
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- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
States with limited
recognition- Abkhazia
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Northern Cyprus
- Palestine
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- South Ossetia
Dependencies and
other territories- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Hong Kong
- Macau
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