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Encyclopedia > Communications in Yemen

Telephones - main lines in use: 188,000 (1998)


Telephones - mobile cellular: 8,250 (1995)


Telephone system: since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, and tropospheric scatter
international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti


Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)


Radios: 1.05 million (1997)


Television broadcast stations: 7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)


Televisions: 470,000 (1997)


Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (1999)


Country code (Top level domain): YE

See also : Yemen

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Yemen at AllExperts (1967 words)
The Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west.
Yemen was one of the oldest centres of civilization in the Near East.
Yemen is in Southwest Asia, in the south of Arabia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, west of Oman and south of Saudi Arabia.
Yemen (116 words)
North Yemen[?] became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states.
The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990.
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