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    Kuwait Communications - 2002
    https://greekorthodoxchurch.org/wfb2002/kuwait/kuwait_communications.html
    SOURCE: 2002 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

      Telephones - main lines in use 412,000 (1997)

      Telephones - mobile cellular 210,000 (1997)

      Telephone system
      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: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 2 Arabsat

      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 country code .kw

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 3 (2000)

      Internet users 165,000 (2001)

      NOTE: The information regarding Kuwait on this page is re-published from the 2002 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kuwait Communications 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kuwait Communications 2002 should be addressed to the CIA.

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