Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Spain: Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 17,567,500 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 37,506,700 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: generally adequate, modern facilities; teledensity is 44 main lines for each 100 persons domestic: NA international: country code - 34; 22 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries

Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios: 13.1 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
224 (plus 2,105 repeaters) note: these figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 88 repeaters in the Canary Islands (1995)
Televisions:
16.2 million (1997)

Internet country code: .es

Internet hosts: 1,056,950 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 56 (2000)

Internet users: 9.789 million (2003)