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| Telephones - main lines in use: |
135 million (2000)
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| Telephones - mobile cellular: |
65 million (January 2001)
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| Telephone system: |
general assessment:
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)
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| Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
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| Radios: |
417 million (1997)
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| 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)
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| Televisions: |
400 million (1997)
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| Internet country code: |
.cn
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| Internet Service Providers (ISPs): |
3 (2000)
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| Internet users: |
22 million (January 2001)
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