note: in 1998, the government contracted for the installation of
575,000 additional Group Speciale Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone
lines over 15 months to raise the total number of subscribers to
more than one million; Riyadh planned to further expand the GSM
system in 1999 by adding an additional one million lines (1998)

Senegal:
1,149 (1996)

Seychelles:
16,316 (1999)

Sierra Leone:
650 (1999)

Singapore:
2.333 million (November 2000)

Slovakia:
736,662 (April 1999)

Slovenia:
1 million (2000)

Solomon Islands:
658 (1997)

Somalia:
NA

South Africa:
over 2,000,000 (1999)

Spain:
8.394 million (1999)

Sri Lanka:
228,604 (1999)

Sudan:
20,000 (2000)

Suriname:
4,090 (1997)

Svalbard:
NA

Swaziland:
30,000 (2000)

Sweden:
3.835 million (October 1998)

Switzerland:
1.967 million (1999)

Syria:
NA

Tajikistan:
2,500 (1997)

Tanzania:
30,000 (1999)

Thailand:
2.3 million (1998)

Togo:
2,995 (1997)

Tokelau:
0 (2001)

Tonga:
302 (1996)

Trinidad and Tobago:
17,411 (1997)

Tunisia:
50,000 (1998)

Turkey:
12.1 million (1999)

Turkmenistan:
4,300 (1998)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
0 (1994)

Tuvalu:
0 (1994)

Uganda:
9,000 (1998)

Ukraine:
236,000 (1998)

United Arab Emirates:
1 million (1999)

United Kingdom:
13 million (yearend 1998)

United States:
69.209 million (1998)

Uruguay:
300,000 (2000)

Uzbekistan:
26,000 (1998)

Vanuatu:
154 (1996)

Venezuela:
2 million (1998)

Vietnam:
730,155 (2000)

Virgin Islands:
2,000 (1992)

Wallis and Futuna:
0 (1994)

West Bank:
NA

Western Sahara:
0 (1999)

World:
NA

Yemen:
32,042 (2000)

Yugoslavia:
87,000 (1997)

Zambia:
6,000 (1998)

Zimbabwe:
70,000 (1999)

Taiwan:
16 million (September 2000)

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@Television broadcast stations

Afghanistan:
at least 10 (one government run central television
station in Kabul and regional stations in nine of the 30 provinces;
the regional stations operate on a reduced schedule; also, in 1997,
there was a station in Mazar-e Sharif reaching four northern
Afghanistan provinces) (1998)

Albania:
9 (plus 264 repeaters) (1995)

Algeria:
46 (plus 216 repeaters) (1995)

American Samoa:
1 (1997)

Andorra:
0 (1997)

Angola: