Short facts about communications in Australia

Telephones - main lines in use:

9.58 million (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

6.4 million (1998)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  excellent domestic and international service domestic:  domestic satellite system; much use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones international:  submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean), 2 Inmarsat (Indian and Pacific Ocean regions) (1998)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:

25.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

104 (1997)

Televisions:

10.15 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.au

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

264 (2000)

Internet users:

7.77 million (2000)

Source: World Factbook