title: Telecommunications in Kuwait
text: # Telecommunications in Kuwait
  
  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): 5 (2011) Which are: Fasttelco, Gulfnet, KEMS, Mada, and Qualitynet
  
  Internet users: 1,925,956 or 74.2% of the population (2011), 700,000 (2005)
  
  Top-level domain: .kw
  
  