Telecommunications in Spain

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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

References

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

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Network topology and switching	Links Nodes Terminal node Network switching (circuit packet) Telephone exchange

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Networks	ARPANET BITNET Cellular network Computer CYCLADES Ethernet FidoNet Internet ISDN LAN Mobile NGN NPL network Public Switched Telephone Radio Telecommunications equipment Television Telex WAN Wireless World Wide Web

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