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Average cost of local call	0.06		[91st of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Applied sciences	8		[51st of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature	39		[50th of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology	10		[47th of 73]
DVD region	2		[150th of 171]
Fax machines	9.71 per 1,000 people		[33rd of 103]
Households with television > %	95.42 %		[28th of 160]
Mobile phone subscribers	748,703		[106th of 198]
Number of PCs	121		[109th of 169]
Phone subscribers	671.55		[48th of 178]
Radio broadcast stations	AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0
Radio receivers	338,000		[145th of 188]
Radios	338,000		[144th of 221]
Telephone system > International country code - 973; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth station - 1
Telephone system > Regulation	1996
Telephones > Mobile cellular	1,116,000		[116th of 186]
Television broadcast stations	4		[44th of 89]
Television receivers	275,000		[113rd of 185]
Televisions	275,000		[117th of 215]
Website defacements	1		[122nd of 129]

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