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Communications In The People's Republic Of ChinaTelephone Telephones - main lines in use: 135 million (2000 est.) Telephones - mobile cellular: 329 million (2004 Q4) - expected to hit 402 million by end of 2005 Telephone system: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns
domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
international: satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000) Operators include: Radio Radio broadcast stations: AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998) Radios: 417 million (1997) Television Television broadcast stations: 3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations and nearly 3,000 are local city stations) (1997) Televisions: 400 million (1997) See also: List of Chinese language television channels Internet Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2000) Internet users: 45.8 million (2002) Country codes: CN See also : China
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