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 (FLAG); linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6 (3
Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1
Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean, and 2
Arabsat)
country code: 965
Broadcast media
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
1.175 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)
Televisions:
875,000 (1997)
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2011)
Which are: Fasttelco, Gulfnet, KEMS, Mada, and Qualitynet
Internet users:
1,925,956 or 74.2% of the population (2011),[2] 700,000 (2005)