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Rank Country/region Number of telephone lines Date of information — Worldwide 931,000,000: 2019: 1 China 183,477,000: 2018/11: 2 United States 114,000,000: 2011 est. 3 Germany ...
List of countries by number of mobile numbers in use. This list ranks the countries of the world by the number of mobile phone numbers in use. IMPORTANT NOTE: This list does NOT provide the "number of mobile phones in use." Nobody knows that data. This is a count of phone numbers by country.
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators. It provides infrastructure and services for public telephony. The PSTN consists of telephone lines, fiber-optic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks ...
Telephone density or teledensity is the number of telephone connections for every hundred individuals living within an area. It varies widely across the nations and also between urban and rural areas within a country. Telephone density has significant correlation with the per capita GDP of the area. [1] It is also used as an indicator of the ...
World map showing submarine cables in 2015. In the 1980s, fiber-optic cables were developed. The first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fiber was TAT-8, which went into operation in 1988. A fiber-optic cable comprises multiple pairs of fibers. Each pair has one fiber in each direction.
World population [3] 6.6 billion 6.9 billion 7.3 billion 7.75 billion Fixed broadband: 5% 8% ... List of countries by number of telephone lines in use;
This list identifies the fixed line operators and the mobile operators for the top 200 most populous countries in the world. The list of countries and their populations is from List of countries by population. The CIA World Factbook is cited as the standard reference for the number of main lines for each of the listed countries. [1]
Comparison of mobile phone standards; List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions; List of countries by number of Internet users; List of countries by number of telephone lines in use; List of countries by smartphone penetration; List of multiple-system operators; List of telecommunications companies