title: Telecommunications in Spain
text: # Telecommunications in Spain
  
  Telecommunications in Spain is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within 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
  