Australia
has an excellent infrastructure for communications. Internet, Television and
Telephone usage is one of the highest per-capita in the world.
Telephones - main lines in use: |
11.46 million (2005) |
Telephones - mobile cellular: |
18.42 million (2005) |
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: country code - 61; submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; satellite earth stations - 19 (10 Intelsat - 4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean, 2 Inmarsat - Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, 2 Globalstar, 5 other) (2005) |
Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998) |
Television broadcast stations: |
104 (1997) |
Internet country code: |
.au |
Internet hosts: |
7.773 million (2006) |
Internet users: |
14.664 million (2006) |
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