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Introduction - Kuwait: | Location - Kuwait: | People - Kuwait: | Government - Kuwait: | Economy - Kuwait: | Communications - Kuwait: | Fiscal year | 1 April - 31 March | | 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 hosts | 2,310 (2006) | | Internet users | 816,700 (2006) | |
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