New Zealand Communications - 2005

Telephones - main lines in use:
1.765 million (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.599 million (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international systems
domestic: NA
international: country code - 64; submarine cables to Australia and Fiji; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

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:
474,395 (2003)