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West Bank Communications 2020

SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES
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West Bank Communications 2020
SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on January 27, 2020

Telephones - fixed lines:
total subscriptions: 472,293 (includes Gaza Strip) (2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 9 (includes Gaza Strip) (2016 est.)
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 99

Telephones - mobile cellular:
total subscriptions: 4,135,363 (includes Gaza Strip) (2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 76 (includes Gaza Strip) (2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 127

Telephone system:
general assessment: continuing political and economic instability has impeded liberalization of the telecommunications industry (2018)
domestic: Israeli company BEZEK and the Palestinian company PALTEL are responsible for fixed-line services; two Palestinian cellular providers, JAWWAL and WATANIYA MOBILE, launched 3G mobile networks in the West Bank in January 2018 after Israel lifted its ban (2018)
international: country code 970 or 972; 1 international switch in Ramallah

Broadcast media:
the Palestinian Authority operates 1 TV and 1 radio station; about 20 private TV and 40 radio stations; both Jordanian TV and satellite TV are accessible

Internet country code:
.psnote - same as Gaza Strip

Internet users:
total: 2.673 million (includes Gaza Strip)
[see also: Internet users - total country ranks ]
percent of population: 57.4% (July 2016 est.)
[see also: Internet users - percent of population country ranks ]
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 101

Broadband - fixed subscriptions:
total: 371,299
[see also: Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 14 (2017 est.)
note: includes Gaza Strip
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 89


NOTE: 1) The information regarding West Bank on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of West Bank Communications 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about West Bank Communications 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.




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