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Communication Details

Telephones - main lines in use: 10.815 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 14.347 million (2003)

Telephone system: 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)
Television broadcast stations:: 104 (1997)
Internet country code: .au
Internet hosts: 2,847,763 (2003)
Internet users: 9.472 million (2002)


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