| Telephones: |
Main lines in use: 191,600 (2004) |
| Telephones: |
Mobile cellular: 649,800 (2004) |
| Telephone system: |
General assessment: modern system |
| Domestic: |
Modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones |
| International: |
Country code - 973; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 1 (1997) |
| Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998) |
| Television broadcast stations: |
4 (1997) |
| Internet country code: |
.bh |
| Internet hosts: |
1,952 (2005) |
| Internet users: |
152,700 (2005) |