Kuwait: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 480,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 17 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 8.305 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 298 (July 2015 est.) |
| 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 mobile-cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is international: country code - 965; linked to international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6 (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-owned TV broadcaster operates 4 networks and a satellite channel; several private TV broadcasters have emerged since 2003; satellite TV available with pan-Arab TV stations are especially popular; state-owned Radio Kuwait broadcasts on a number of ch (2007) |
| Internet country code | .kw |
| Internet users | total: 2.289 million percent of population: 82.1% (July 2015 est.) |