Location: Jordan
31 00 N, 36 00 E
Middle East, northwest of Saudi Arabia
Main City Codes:
Ajloun 2, Greater Amman 6, Aqaba 3, Azraq 5, Balqa 5, Irbid 2, Jerash 2, Karak 3, Ma'an 3, Madaba 5, Mafraq 2, Petra 3, Ramtha 2, Salt 5, Tafila 3, Wadi Rum 3, Zarqa 5
Mobile Phone Codes:
Fastlink 79, Mobilecom 77
Communications: Jordan
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 585,500 (2007)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 4.771 million (2007)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: service has improved recently with the increased use of digital switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in the rural areas and easier access to pay telephones is needed by the urban public
- domestic: 1995 telecommunications law opened all non-fixed-line services to private competition; in 2005, monopoly over fixed-line services terminated and the entire telecommunications sector was opened to competition; mobile-cellular usage is increasing rapidly and teledensity reached 80 per 100 persons in 2007
- international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL; international links total about 4,000; country code - 962;
- Radio broadcast stations:
- AM NA, FM 31 (2007)
- Television broadcast stations:
- 22 (2007)
- Internet country code:
- .jo
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 5 (2000)
- Internet hosts:
- 21,150 (2008)
- Internet users:
- 1.127 million (2007)
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