Communications Of China

Telephones main lines in use	263 million (2003)
Telephones mobile cellular	269 million (2003)
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: country code - 86; 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)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
Radios	417 million (1997)
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)
Internet country code	.cn
Internet hosts	160,421 (2003)
Internet Service Providers ISPs	3 (2000)
Internet users	79.5 million (2003)