Telephones - main lines in use:
196,500 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
748,700 (2005)

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:
2,165 (2006)