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Telephones - main lines in use:
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135 million (2000)
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Telephones - mobile cellular:
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65 million (January 2001)
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Telephone system:
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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: 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)
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Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
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Radios:
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417 million (1997)
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Television broadcast stations:
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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)
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Televisions:
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400 million (1997)
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Internet country code:
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.cn
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
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3 (2000)
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Internet users:
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45.8 million (2002)
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