IraqCommunications

Telephones - main lines in use:	675,000; note - an unknown number of telephone lines were damaged or destroyed during the March-April 2003 war (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	20,000 (2002)
Telephone system:	general assessment: the 2003 war severely disrupted telecommunications throughout Iraq including international connections; USAID is overseeing the repair of switching capability and the construction of mobile and satellite communication facilities domestic: repairs to switches and lines destroyed in the recent fighting continue, but sabotage remains a problem; cellular service is expected to be in place within two years international: country code - 964; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Arabsat (inoperative); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey; Kuwait line is probably nonoperational
Radio broadcast stations:	after 17 months of unregulated media growth, there are approximately 80 radio stations on the air inside Iraq (2004)
Radios:	4.85 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	21 (2004)
Televisions:	1.75 million (1997)
Internet country code:	.iq
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	1 (2000)
Internet users:	25,000 (2002)

More about Iraq:

The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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