New Zealand Communications - 2006

Telephones - main lines in use:
1,800,500 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.027 million (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international systems
domestic: NA
international: country code - 64; submarine cables to Australia and Fiji; 8 satellite earth stations - 1 InMarSat (Pacific Ocean), 7 other

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 124, FM 290, shortwave 4 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
41 (plus 52 medium-power repeaters and over 650 low-power repeaters) (1997)

Internet country code:
.nz

Internet hosts:
751,719 (2005)