Jordan: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 368,938 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 5 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 13.798 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 170 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: service has improved recently with increased use of digital switching equipment; microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; growing mobile-cellular usage in both urban and rural areas is reducing use domestic: 1995 telecommunications law opened all non-fixed-line services to private competition; in 2005, monopoly over fixed-line services terminated and the entire telecommunications sector was opened to competition; currently multiple mobile-cellular providers w international: country code - 962; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) FEA and FLAG Falcon submarine cable networks; satellite earth stations - 33 (3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals); fiber-optic cable to Saudi (2015) |
Broadcast media | radio and TV dominated by the government-owned Jordan Radio and Television Corporation (JRTV) that operates a main network, a sports network, a film network, and a satellite channel; first independent TV broadcaster aired in 2007; international satellite (2007) |
Internet country code | .jo |
Internet users | total: 4.335 million percent of population: 53.4% (July 2015 est.) |