Telecommunications in Spain
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Telecommunications in Spain is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within Spain.
Telephones (landline and cellular)
[edit]- Telephones - main lines in use: 18.583 million (2007)
- Telephones - mobile cellular: 48.8 million (2007)
- Telephone system: generally adequate, modern facilities
- domestic: NA
- international: 22 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries
Radio
[edit]- Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)
- Radios: 13.1 million (1997)
Television
[edit]- Television broadcast stations: 228 (plus 2,112 repeaters); note - these figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 89 repeaters in the Canary Islands (September 1995)
- Televisions: 16.2 million (1997)
Internet
[edit]- Internet service providers (ISPs): 49 (1999)
- Internet hosts: 3,264 million (2008)
- Internet users: 33.7 million (2012)
- Country code (Top-level domain): ES
See also
[edit]- History of telecommunication
- Internet in Spain
- Media of Spain
- Outline of telecommunication
- Telefónica
References
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This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA.
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