Bahrain

Bahrain Communications

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)



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