Telecommunications in Bahrain - Telephonic Services

Telephonic Services

Telephones - main lines in use: 194,200 (2006)
county comparison to the world: 124

Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,116,000 (2007)

county comparison to the world: 132

Telephone system:

  • general assessment: modern system
  • domestic: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones
  • international: country code - 973; landing point for the Fire-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth station - 1 (2007)

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