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Middle East > United Arab Emirates > Media

EMIRATI MEDIA STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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DVD region 2 [163rd of 171]
Fax machines 16.12 per 1,000 people [25th of 103]
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers > per 1,000 people 1,273.14 per 1,000 people Time series [33rd of 193]
HAM radio prefixes A6A - A6Z
Households with television > % 85.91 % Time series [67th of 160]
Hung Up > Charts > Peak > position 1 [9th of 35]
Information and communication technology expenditure > current US$ 5,101,400,000 $ Time series [50th of 74]
    Information and communication technology expenditure > current US$ (per $ GDP) 0.036 $ per $1 of GDP Time series [61st of 74]
    Information and communication technology expenditure > current US$ (per capita) 1,027.499 $ per capita Time series [23rd of 74]
International dialling code 971
International voice traffic > out and in, minutes 1,017,981,000 min. Time series [32nd of 164]
    International voice traffic > out and in, minutes (per capita) 383.854 min. per capita Time series [18th of 185]
Mobile phone subscribers 4,534,480 Time series [58th of 198]
    Mobile phone subscribers (per capita) 1,000.294 per 1 million people Time series [18th of 201]
Number of PCs 450 [68th of 169]
    Number of PCs (per $ GDP) 0.071 per $10 million of GDP [98th of 144]
    Number of PCs (per capita) 1.756 per 10,000 people [50th of 169]
Personal computers 850,000 Time series [55th of 164]
    Personal computers (per capita) 196.759 per 1 million people Time series [37th of 171]
Phone subscribers 955.56 [31st of 178]
Population covered by mobile telephony > % 100 % Time series [2nd of 108]
Price basket for mobile > US$ per month 4.12 $/month Time series [164th of 185]
Price basket for residential fixed line > US$ per month 17.4 $/month Time series [37th of 151]
Radio broadcast stations AM 13, FM 8, shortwave 2 Time series
Radio receivers 820,000 Time series [117th of 188]
    Radio receivers (per capita) 0.309 per capita Time series [92nd of 182]
Radios 820,000 [118th of 221]
    Radios (per capita) 319.938 per 1,000 people [110th of 212]
Telecommunications investment > % of revenue 12.92 % Time series [52nd of 165]
Telecommunications investment > current LCU 1364000000 Time series
Telecommunications revenue > % GDP 2.71 % GDP Time series [60th of 167]
Telecommunications revenue > current LCU 12900000000 Time series
Telephone average cost of call to US > US$ per three minutes 1.73 $ Time series [51st of 142]
    Telephone average cost of call to US > US$ per three minutes (per $ GDP) 16.54 $ per $1 trillion of GD Time series [72nd of 174]
    Telephone average cost of call to US > US$ per three minutes (per capita) 400.463 $ per 1 million people Time series [38th of 178]
Telephone employees, total 10,039 Time series [42nd of 194]
    Telephone employees, total (per capita) 2.324 per 1,000 people Time series [23rd of 202]
Telephone faults > per 100 mainlines 0.25 per 100 mainlines Time series [56th of 134]
Telephone mainlines 1,236,860 Time series [58th of 202]
    Telephone mainlines (per capita) 272.848 per 1,000 people Time series [46th of 203]
Telephone subscribers 5,771,340 Time series [54th of 199]
    Telephone subscribers (per capita) 2.252 per 1,000 people Time series [1st of 201]
Telephone subscribers per employee 485.19 Time series [40th of 191]
Telephone system > Domestic
microwave radio relay, fiber optic and coaxial cable
Telephone system > General assessment
modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile-cellular telephones; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Telephone system > International
country code - 971; linked to the international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); landing point for both the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia
Telephone systems > Privatisation 1976
Telephones > Main lines in use 1,385,000 Time series [56th of 174]
    Telephones > Main lines in use (per capita) 311.655 per 1,000 people Time series [37th of 173]
Telephones > Mobile cellular 7,595,000 Time series [56th of 186]
    Telephones > Mobile cellular (per capita) 1,709.042 per 1,000 people Time series [2nd of 185]
Television broadcast stations 15 Time series [10th of 89]
    Television broadcast stations (per capita) 3.472 per million people Time series [24th of 67]
Television receivers 310,000 Time series [110th of 185]
    Television receivers (per capita) 116.893 per 1,000 people Time series [95th of 179]
Television standard > UHF PAL G
Television standard > VHF PAL B
Televisions 310,000 [113rd of 215]
    Televisions (per capita) 120.952 per 1,000 people [118th of 209]
Website defacements 16 [56th of 129]
    Website defacements (per capita) 6.24268 per 1 million people [30th of 124]

SOURCES: Amazon.com; The Information for Development Program; World Development Indicators database; hamcity.com; Wikipedia: Hung Up ; ; ITU; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; ITU-BDT Telecommunications Regulatory Database; Tenlab May 2002; attrition.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United Arab Emirates, Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah, united ar. em., united arab emir., united arab emirates b, uae, the united arab emirates

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