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Kuwait:
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Telephones - main lines in use
510,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular
2.536 million (2006)
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 cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones
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 - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 2 Arabsat
Radio broadcast stations
AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations
13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)
Internet country code
.kw
Internet hosts
2,013 (2007)
Internet users
816,700 (2006)
Airports
7 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 2 (2007)
Heliports
4 (2007)
Pipelines
gas 269 km; oil 540 km; refined products 57 km (2006)
Roadways
total: 5,749 km
paved: 4,887 km
unpaved: 862 km (2004)
Merchant marine
total: 38 ships (1000 GRT or over) 2,195,831 GRT/3,566,308 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 1, container 6, liquefied gas 5, livestock carrier 3, petroleum tanker 21
registered in other countries: 28 (Bahrain 3, Comoros 1, Liberia 1, Libya 1, Panama 1, Qatar 7, Saudi Arabia 6, UAE 8) (2007)
Ports and terminals
Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi


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