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Thursday, February 26, 2015

This page offers information on telecommunications in Spain.

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

See also



  • Telefónica
  • Internet in Spain
  • Television in Spain
  • Radio in Spain
  • Newspapers in Spain

References



  •  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the CIA World Factbook.




 
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