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Saudi Arabia Communications 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Saudi Arabia Communications 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 8,

Telephones - main lines in use:
4.166 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 39
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
51.564 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 24
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system including a combination of extensive microwave radio relays, coaxial cables, and fiber-optic cables
domestic: mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing rapidly
international: country code - 966; landing point for the international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) and for both the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks providing connectivity to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US; microwave radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait and Jordan; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region) (2008)

Broadcast media:
broadcast media are state-controlled; state-run TV operates 4 networks; Saudi Arabia is a major market for pan-Arab satellite TV broadcasters; state-run radio operates several networks; multiple international broadcasters are available (2007)

Internet country code:
.sa

Internet hosts:
488,598 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 51
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
9.774 million (2009)
country comparison to the world: 30
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Saudi Arabia on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Saudi Arabia Communications 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Saudi Arabia Communications 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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