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Telephones - main lines in use: 4.231 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 12.226 million (2006)
Telephone system: general assessment: Portugal's telephone
system has achieved a state-of-the-art network with broadband, high-speed
capabilities
domestic: integrated network of coaxial cables, open-wire, microwave
radio relay, and domestic satellite earth stations
international: country code - 351; a combination of submarine cables
provide connectivity to Europe, North and East Africa, South Africa, the Middle
East, Asia, and US; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and
1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to Azores; note - an earth
station for Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region) is planned (1998)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 47, FM 172 (many are repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
62 (plus 166 repeaters)
note: includes Azores and Madeira Islands (1995)
Internet country code: .pt
Internet hosts: 836,616 (2007)
Internet users: 3.213 million (2006)
This information comes from the CIA
World Factbook January 2008.
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