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Introduction - Portugal: | Location - Portugal: | People - Portugal: | Government - Portugal: | Economy - Portugal: | Communications - Portugal: | Fiscal year | calendar year | | Telephones main lines in use | 4.231 million (2006) | | Telephones mobile cellular | 12.226 million (2006) | | Telephone system | general assessment: Portugals telephone system has achieved a state-of-the-art network with broadband, high-speed capabilities
domestic: integrated network of coaxial cables, open-wire, microwave radio relay, and domestic satellite earth stations
international: country code - 351; 6 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to Azores; note - an earth station for Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region) is planned (1998) | | Radio broadcast stations | AM 47, FM 172 (many are repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998) | | Television broadcast stations | 62 (plus 166 repeaters; includes Azores and Madeira Islands) (1995) | | Internet country code | .pt | | Internet hosts | 845,980 (2005) | | Internet users | 3.213 million (2006) | |
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