Editing Telecommunications in Kuwait (section)

===Telephones===
'''Telephones - main lines in use:'''
514,700 (2011),<ref name=CIAWFB-Kuwait/> 510,300 (2005)

'''Telephones - mobile cellular:'''
4.9 million (2011),<ref name=CIAWFB-Kuwait/> 2.7 million (2007)

'''Telephone system:'''<ref name=CIAWFB-Kuwait/>
*''general assessment:'' the quality of service is excellent
*''domestic:'' new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones. 
*''international:'' linked to international submarine cable [[Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe]] (FLAG); linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to [[Saudi Arabia]]; satellite earth stations - 6 (3 [[Intelsat]] - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1 [[Inmarsat]] - Atlantic Ocean, and 2 [[Arabsat]]) 
*''country code:'' 965