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Telephones -
main lines in use | 510,300 (2005) | | Telephones -
mobile cellular | 2.536 million (2006) | | | 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, and open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones
international: country code - 965; 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) | | Television broadcast
stations | 13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997) | | | Internet country code | .kw | | | Internet users | 700,000 (2005) | |
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