Qatar: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 428,858 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 20 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 3.61 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 164 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: modern system centered in Doha domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership exceeds 180 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 974; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the US; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and the UAE; sa (2015) |
Broadcast media | TV and radio broadcast licensing and access to local media markets are state controlled; home of the satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which was originally owned and financed by the Qatari government but has evolved to independent corporate status; Al-Jaze (2014) |
Internet country code | .qa |
Internet users | total: 2.039 million percent of population: 92.9% (July 2015 est.) |