Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use: >1,000,000 (2005)194.165.132.86 12:02, 4 October 2005 (UTC) This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Telephones - mobile cellular: >2,500,000 in 4 mobile networks (2005) 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Telephone system: The service has improved recently with the increased use of digital switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in some rural areas and easier access to pay telephones is needed by the urban public A payphone or pay phone is a public telephone, with payment by inserting money (usually coins) or a debit card (a special telephone card or a multi-purpose card) or credit card before a call is made. ...

domestic: Microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; considerable use is made of mobile cellular systems; Internet service is available. Coaxial cable is an electrical cable consisting of a round conducting wire, surrounded by an insulating spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath, and usually surrounded by a final insulating layer. ... Fiber Optic strands An optical fiber in American English or fibre in British English is a transparent thin fiber for transmitting light. ...

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 A satellite earth station is a communications facility with a microwave radio transmitting and receiving antenna and required receiving and transmitting equipment for communicating with satellites. ... Intelsat is the worlds largest commercial satellite communications services provider. ... Arabsat is a satellite built by Aerospatiale. ... INMARSAT, is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979, originally as an intergovernmental organisation. ... Fiber Optic strands An optical fiber in American English or fibre in British English is a transparent thin fiber for transmitting light. ... FLAG is a 28,000 kilometer long undersea fiber optic cable that connects England, Japan, and many places in between. ...

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (1999) Amplitude modulation (AM) is a form of modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is varied in direct proportion to that of a modulating signal. ... Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. ...

Radios: 1.66 million (1997) 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...

Television

Television broadcast stations: 20 (plus 96 repeaters) (1995) 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Televisions: 500,000 (1997) 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): >10 , ADSL available (2005) An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Internet users: >1,500,000 (2005) 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Country code top-level domain (ccTLD): .JO

See also

• Jordan