Main City Codes:
City Codes not required. All points seven digits.
Mobile Phone Codes:
Kuwait mobile codes: 2, 3, 7, 9
Communications: Kuwait
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 412,000 (1997)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 210,000 (1997)
- 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, and open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones
- international: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 2 Arabsat
- Internet country code:
- .kw
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 3 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 200,000 (2002)
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