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Switzerland - Communications

Contents:

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People

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Communications:
Telephones - main lines in use: 5.04 million (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 7.418 million (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: highly developed telecommunications infrastructure with excellent domestic and international services
domestic: ranked among leading countries for fixed-line teledensity and infrastructure; mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 100 per 100 persons; extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks
international: country code - 41; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 113 (plus many low power stations), shortwave 2 (1998)

Television broadcast stations: 115 (plus 1,919 repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code: .ch

Internet hosts: 1.405 million (2007)

Internet users: 4.36 million (2006)

This information comes from the CIA World Factbook January 2008.

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