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Communications:
Telephones - main lines in use: 4.719 million (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 9.66 million (2006)

Telephone system: general assessment: highly developed, technologically advanced, and completely automated domestic and international telephone and telegraph facilities
domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 32; landing point for a number of submarine cables that provide links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat - 3) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:  
FM 79, AM 7, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:  
25 (plus 10 repeaters) (1997)

Internet country code: .be

Internet hosts: 3.195 million (2007)

Internet users: 4.8 million (2005)

This information comes from the CIA World Factbook January 2008.

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