Telecommunications in Kuwait
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Telecommunications in Kuwaitprovides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure inKuwait.
Infrastructure
[edit]Telephones
[edit]Telephones - main lines in use: 514,700 (2011),[1]510,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 4.9 million (2011),[1]2.7 million (2007)
Telephone system:[1]
- general assessment:the quality of service is excellent
- domestic:new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones.
- international:linked to international submarine cableFiber-Optic Link Around the Globe(FLAG); linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay toSaudi Arabia;satellite earth stations - 6 (3Intelsat- 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1Inmarsat- Atlantic Ocean, and 2Arabsat)
- country code:965
Broadcast media
[edit]Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 1.175 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)
Televisions: 875,000 (1997)
Internet
[edit]Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5 (2011) Which are: Fasttelco, Gulfnet, KEMS, Mada, and Qualitynet
Internet users: 1,925,956 or 74.2% of the population (2011),[2]700,000 (2005)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcd"Kuwait",World Factbook,U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, retrieved 16 February 2013
- ^Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2011,International Telecommunication Union,accessed on 19 August 2012.
External links
[edit]- Nokia to upgrade Kuwaiti network,BBC News,29 May 2005
