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- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 194 million (1997)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 69.209 million (1998)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: a very large, technologically advanced, multipurpose communications system
- domestic: a large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and domestic satellites carries every form of telephone traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout the country
- international: 24 ocean cable systems in use; satellite earth stations - 61 Intelsat (45 Atlantic Ocean and 16 Pacific Ocean), 5 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 4 Inmarsat (Pacific and Atlantic Ocean regions) (2000)
- Internet country code:
- .us
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 7,000 (2002 est.)
- Internet users:
- 165.75 million (2002)
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