Australia: Communications

Telephones - main lines in use

10.59 million (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular

12.579 million (2002)

Telephone system

general assessment: excellent domestic and international service
domestic: domestic satellite system; much use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones
international: country code - 61; submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean), 2 Inmarsat (Indian and Pacific Ocean regions) (1998)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios

25.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

104 (1997)

Televisions

10.15 million (1997)

Internet country code

.au

Internet hosts

2,564,339 (2002)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

571 (2002)

Internet users

9.472 million (2002)