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Syria Communications 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Syria Communications 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 27,

Telephones - main lines in use:
4.069 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 41
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
11.696 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 61
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system currently undergoing significant improvement and digital upgrades, including fiber-optic technology and expansion of the network to rural areas
domestic: the number of fixed-line connections has increased markedly since 2000; mobile-cellular service growing with telephone subscribership exceeding 50 per 100 persons in 2010
international: country code - 963; submarine cable connection to Egypt, Lebanon, and Cyprus; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; participant in Medarabtel

Broadcast media:
state-run television and radio broadcast networks; state operates 2 TV networks and a satellite channel; roughly two-thirds of Syrian homes have a satellite dish providing access to foreign TV broadcasts; 3 state-run radio channels; first private radio station launched in 2005; private radio broadcasters prohibited from transmitting news or political content (2007)

Internet country code:
.sy

Internet hosts:
8,114 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 139
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
4.469 million (2009)
country comparison to the world: 52
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Syria 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 Syria Communications 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Syria 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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