Telecommunications in Spain is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
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Telephones (landline and cellular)
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Telephone
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most ...
s - 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
A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including communication relay, weather forecasting, navigation ( GPS), broadcasting, scient ...
earth stations - 2
Intelsat
Intelsat S.A. (formerly Intel-Sat, Intelsat) is a Luxembourgish-American multinational satellite services provider with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg and administrative headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, United States. Originally formed ...
(1
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...
and 1
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...
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Eutelsat
Eutelsat S.A. is a French satellite operator. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas, it has been the world's third-largest satellite operator in terms of revenues. Its subsidiary E ...
; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries
Radio
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Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)
*Radios: 13.1 million (1997)
Television
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...
broadcast stations: 228 (plus 2,112 repeaters); note - these figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 89 repeaters in the
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous Community of Spain. They are located in the northwest of Africa, with the closest point to the cont ...
(September 1995)
*Televisions: 16.2 million (1997)
Internet
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Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, no ...
s (ISPs): 49 (1999)
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Internet hosts: 3,264 million (2008)
*Internet users: 33.7 million (2012)
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Country code
A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas. Its primary use is in data processing and communications. Several identification systems have been developed.
The term ''country code'' frequently re ...
(Top-level domain): ES
See also
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History of telecommunication
The history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drum (communication), drums in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore line, semaphore systems emerged in Europe. However, it was not until ...
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Internet in Spain
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Media of Spain
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Television in Spain
Television in Spain was Timeline of the introduction of television in countries, introduced in 1956, when the national Government-owned corporation, state-owned public service broadcasting, public service television broadcaster (TVE) started re ...
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Radio in Spain
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Newspapers in Spain
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Outline of telecommunication
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Telefónica
, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company with registered office and headquarters located in two different places, both in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the ...
References
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