Media Stats: compare key data on India & West Bank

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STAT	India	West Bank	HISTORY
Broadcast media	Doordarshan, India's public TV network, operates about 20 national, regional, and local services; a large and increasing number of privately owned TV stations are distributed by cable and satellite service providers; by 2011, more than 100 million homes had access to cable and satellite TV offering more than 700 TV channels; government controls AM radio with All India Radio operating domestic and external networks; news broadcasts via radio are limited to the All India Radio Network; since 2000, privately-owned FM stations have been permitted and their numbers have increased rapidly	the Palestinian Authority operates 1 TV and 1 radio station; about 30 independent TV and 25 radio stations; both Jordanian TV and satellite TV are accessible
Internet > Internet Service Providers	43 Ranked 27th. 5 times more than West Bank	8 Ranked 95th.
Internet > TLD	.in	.ps; note - same as Gaza Strip
Internet > Users	80 million Ranked 3rd. 225 times more than West Bank	355,500 Ranked 94th.
Internet country code	.in	.ps
Internet users	61.34 million Ranked 6th. 44 times more than West Bank	1.38 million Ranked 85th.
Radio broadcast stations	AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68	AM 0, FM 8, shortwave 0
Telephone system > Domestic	mobile cellular service introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with multiple private service providers and one or more state-owned service providers; in recent years significant trunk capacity added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT)	Israeli company BEZEK and the Palestinian company PALTEL are responsible for fixed line services; PALTEL plans to establish a fiber-optic connection to Jordan to route domestic mobile calls; the Palestinian JAWWAL company and WATANIYA PALESTINE provide cellular services
Telephone system > General assessment	supported by recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world; total telephone subscribership base exceeded 900 million in 2011, an overall teledensity of roughly 75%, and subscribership is currently growing more than 20 million per month; urban teledensity now exceeds 100% and rural teledensity is steadily growing	continuing political and economic instability has impeded significant liberalization of the telecommunications industry
Telephone system > International	country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including Sea-Me-We-3 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay), Sea-Me-We-4 with a landing site at Chennai, Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with a landing site at Mumbai (Bombay), South Africa - Far East (SAFE) with a landing site at Cochin, the i2i cable network linking to Singapore with landing sites at Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras), and Tata Indicom linking Singapore and Chennai (Madras), provide a significant increase in the bandwidth available for both voice and data traffic; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); 9 gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam	country code - 970; 1 international switch in Ramallah
Telephones > Main lines in use	32.69 million Ranked 10th. 97 times more than West Bank	337,000 Ranked 108th.
Telephones > Main lines in use > Per capita	45.45 per 1,000 people Ranked 122nd.	140.9 per 1,000 people Ranked 23th. 3 times more than India
Telephones > Mobile cellular	893.86 million Ranked 2nd. 372 times more than West Bank	2.4 million Ranked 129th.
Television broadcast stations	562 Ranked 2nd. 70 times more than West Bank	8 Ranked 4th.

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