| Communications | Iran |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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23.835 million (2007) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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359 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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29.77 million (2007) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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449 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
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general assessment: currently being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently connected
domestic: the addition of new fiber cables and modern switching and exchange systems installed by Iran's state-owned telecom company have improved and expanded the main line network greatly; main line availability has more than doubled to nearly 24 million lines since 2000; additionally, mobile service has increased dramatically serving nearly 30 million subscribers in 2007
international: country code - 98; submarine fiber-optic cable to UAE with access to Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion to Georgia and Azerbaijan; HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; satellite earth stations - 13 (9 Intelsat and 4 Inmarsat) (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 72, FM 6, shortwave 5 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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922,629 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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11,071,548 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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13,285,857 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
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29 (plus 450 repeaters) (1997) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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2,290,665 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.ir |
Internet hosts:
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2,860 (2008) |
Internet users:
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23 million (2007) |
Internet users - density:
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347 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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