United Arab Emirates Communications 2009, CIA World Factbook




United Arab Emirates Communications 2009 http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/united_arab_emirates/united_arab_emirates_communications.html SOURCE: 2009 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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Telephones - main lines in use:
1.385 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
7.595 million (2007)

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile-cellular telephones; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubai
domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber optic and coaxial cable
international: country code - 971; linked to the international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); landing point for both the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 13, FM 8, shortwave 2 (2004)

Television - broadcast stations:
15 (2004)

Internet country code:
.ae

Internet hosts:
381,915 (2008)

Internet users:
2.3 million (2007)

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