Qatar Telecommunications Profile 2013

Telephones - main lines in use

306,700 (2011)

Telephones - mobile cellular

2.302 million (2011)

Telephone system

general assessment: modern system centered in Doha
domestic: combined fixed and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership exceeds 130 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 974; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the US; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and the UAE; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat

Broadcast media

TV and radio broadcast media are state controlled; home of the satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which was originally owned and financed by the Qatari Government; Al-Jazeera claims editorial independence in broadcasting; transmissions of several international broadcasters are accessible on FM in Doha (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations

1 (plus 3 repeaters) (2001)

Internet country code

.qa

Internet hosts

897 (2012)

Internet users

563,800 (2009)