Editing Telecommunications in Jordan (section)

==Telephone==
50% of households have at least one main line telephone. {{Asof|2010}}, 103% of the population has a cell phone;<ref name='ammon10'>{{Cite web|url=http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=10138|title = Cellular phone subscribers in Kingdom exceeds 103% of population| date=23 October 2010 }}</ref> 15% have more than one.
* '''[[Telephone]]s - main lines in use:''' 622,600 ({{As of|2003|lc=on}})
* '''Telephones - [[mobile telephone|mobile cellular]]:''' 6,250,000<ref name='ammon10'/> ({{As of|2010|09|lc=on}})
* '''[[Trunked radio system|Digital Radio Trunking]]:'''100,000 (Unofficial, Nov'07)
<br>In mid 2004, [[XPress Telecom]] was launched as the country's digital radio trunking operator.

* '''Telephone system:''' The service has improved recently with the increased use of [[telephone switch|digital switching equipment]], but better access to the telephone system is needed in some rural areas and easier access to [[Payphone|pay telephone]]s is needed by the urban public.

:: ''domestic:'' [[Microwave]] [[radio]] relay transmission and [[coaxial cable|coaxial]] and [[fiber-optic cable]] are employed on trunk lines; considerable use is made of mobile [[cellular network|cellular]] systems; [[Internet]] service is available.

:: ''international:'' [[satellite earth station]]s - 3 [[Intelsat]], 1 [[Arabsat]], and 29 land and maritime [[Inmarsat]] terminals; [[fiber-optic cable]] to [[Saudi Arabia]] and microwave radio relay link with [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]]; connection to international submarine cable FLAG ([[Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe]]); participant in [[MEDARABTEL]]; international links total about 4,000.