Telecommunications in Kuwait provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Kuwait.
Infrastructure
Telephones Telephones - main lines in use: 514,700 (2011), 510,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 4.9 million (2011), 2.7 million (2007)
Telephone system: general assessment: the quality of service is excellent domestic: new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones. international: linked to international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6 (3 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1 Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean, and 2 Arabsat) country code: 965
Broadcast media Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 1.175 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)
Televisions: 875,000 (1997)
Internet Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2026) Which are: Zain, Ooredoo, STC, and Starlink
Internet users: 1,925,956 or 74.2% of the population (2011),Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2011, International Telecommunication Union, accessed on 19 August 2012. 700,000 (2005)
Top-level domain: .kw"Kuwait", World Factbook, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, retrieved 16 February 2013
See also Telephone numbers in Kuwait Television in Kuwait Wataniya Telecom
References
External links Nokia to upgrade Kuwaiti network, BBC News, 29 May 2005