Communications

Telephones - main lines in use:	152,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	58,543 (1997)
Telephone system:	general assessment: modern system domestic: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones international: tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat (1997)
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:	338,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	4 (1997)
Televisions:	275,000 (1997)
Internet country code:	.bh
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	1 (2000)
Internet users:	140,200 (2002)

posted to Factbook: Bahrain. at Wed Jun 11 01:06:00 EDT 2003.

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