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Introduction - Australia: | Location - Australia: | People - Australia: | Government - Australia: | Economy - Australia: | Communications - Australia: | Fiscal year | 1 July - 30 June | | Telephones main lines in use | 9.94 million (2006) | | Telephones mobile cellular | 19.76 million (2006) | | Telephone system | general assessment: excellent domestic and international service
domestic: domestic satellite system; much use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones
international: country code - 61; submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; satellite earth stations - 19 (10 Intelsat - 4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean, 2 Inmarsat - Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, 2 Globalstar, 5 other) (2005) | | Radio broadcast stations | AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998) | | Television broadcast stations | 104 (1997) | | Internet country code | .au | | Internet hosts | 7.773 million (2006) | | Internet users | 15.3 million (2006) | |
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