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Tabular Data - Communications in China
| Telephones - Main Lines In Use : |
263 million (2003) |
| Telephones - Cellular : |
269 million (2003) |
| Telephone System : |
general assessment: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns
domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
international: country code - 86; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000) |
| Radio Stations : |
AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998) |
| Radios : |
417,000,000 (1997) |
| Television Stations : |
3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations and nearly 3,000 are local city stations) (1997) |
| Televisions : |
400 million (1997) |
| Internet Country Code : |
.cn |
| Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : |
3 (2000) |
| Internet Users : |
79.5 million (2003) |
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