Telecommunications in Spain

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Telecommunications in Spain is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within Spain.

Telephones (landline and cellular)[]

• Telephones - main lines in use: 18.583 million (2007)
• Telephones - mobile cellular: 48.8 million (2007)
• Telephone system: generally adequate, modern facilities
  • domestic: NA
  • international: 22 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries

Radio[]

• Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)
• Radios: 13.1 million (1997)

Television[]

• Television broadcast stations: 228 (plus 2,112 repeaters); note - these figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 89 repeaters in the Canary Islands (September 1995)
• Televisions: 16.2 million (1997)

Internet[]

• Internet service providers (ISPs): 49 (1999)
• Internet hosts: 3,264 million (2008)
• Internet users: 33.7 million (2012)
• Country code (Top-level domain): ES

See also[]

• History of telecommunication
• Internet in Spain
• Media of Spain
  • Television in Spain
  • Radio in Spain
  • Newspapers in Spain
• Outline of telecommunication
• Telefónica

References[]

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook website https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/.

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