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Telephones
- main lines in use:
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365.6 million (2007)
country
comparison to the world: 1 |
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Telephones
- mobile cellular:
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634 million (2008)
country
comparison to the world: 1 |
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Telephone
system:
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general assessment: domestic
and international services are
increasingly available for private use;
unevenly distributed domestic system
serves principal cities, industrial
centers, and many towns; China continues
to develop its telecommunications
infrastructure, and is partnering with
foreign providers to expand its global
reach; China in the summer of 2008 began
a major restructuring of its
telecommunications industry, resulting
in the consolidation of its six telecom
service operators to three, China
Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom,
each providing both fixed-line and
mobile services
domestic: interprovincial
fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular
telephone systems have been installed;
mobile-cellular subscribership is
increasing rapidly; the number of
Internet users exceeded 250 million by
summer 2008; a domestic satellite system
with 55 earth stations is in place
international: country
code - 86; a number of submarine cables
provide connectivity to Asia, the Middle
East, Europe, and the US; atellite earth
stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Pacific
Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean; 1 Intersputnik
- Indian Ocean region; and 1 Inmarsat -
Pacific and Indian Ocean regions) (2008)
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Radio
broadcast stations:
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AM 369, FM 259,
shortwave 45 (1998)
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Television
broadcast stations:
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3,240 (of which 209
are operated by China Central
Television, 31 are provincial TV
stations, and nearly 3,000 are local
city stations) (1997)
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Internet
country code:
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.cn
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Internet
hosts:
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14.156 million (2009)
country
comparison to the world: 7 |
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Internet
users:
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298 million (2008)
country
comparison to the world: 1
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