Telecommunications in Kuwait

Telecommunications in Kuwait provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Kuwait.

Infrastructure

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use:
514,700, 510,300
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.9 million, 2.7 million
Telephone system:

general assessment: the quality of service is excellent
domestic: new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones.
international: linked to international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe ; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6
country code: 965

Broadcast media

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1
Radios:
1.175 million
Television broadcast stations:
13
Televisions:
875,000

Internet

Internet Service Providers :
5
Which are: Fasttelco, Gulfnet, KEMS, Mada, and Qualitynet
Internet users:
1,925,956 or 74.2% of the population, 700,000
Top-level domain: .kw