Bahrain: Communications

Communications Bahrain
Telephones - main lines in use:
 175,400 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
 389,000 (2002)
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)
Radios:
 338,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
 4 (1997)
Televisions:
 275,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
 .bh
Internet hosts:
 1,339 (2002)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
 1 (2000)
Internet users:
 165,000 (2002)

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