Telecommunications in Spain
# Telecommunications in Spain

Telecommunications in Spain is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within Spain.

## Telephones (landline and cellular)

* Telephones - main lines in use: 18.583 million (2007)
* Telephones - mobile cellular: 48.8 million (2007)
* Telephone system: generally adequate, modern facilities
   * domestic: NA
   * international: 22 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries

## Radio

* Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)
* Radios: 13.1 million (1997)

## Television

* Television broadcast stations: 228 (plus 2,112 repeaters); note - these figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 89 repeaters in the Canary Islands (September 1995)
* Televisions: 16.2 million (1997)

## Internet

* Internet service providers (ISPs): 49 (1999)
* Internet hosts: 3,264 million (2008)
* Internet users: 33.7 million (2012)
* Country code (Top-level domain): ES
