@Bahrain:Communications
Telephone system: 98,000 telephones; 170 telephones/1,000 persons;
modern system; good domestic services; excellent international
connections
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 2 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1
ARABSAT earth station; tropospheric scatter to Qatar, UAE; microwave
radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi
Arabia
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0
radios: 60 million
Television:
broadcast stations: 2
televisions: 21 million
@Bahrain:Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense, Coast Guard, Police
Force
Manpower availability: males age 15-49 210,725; males fit for military
service 117,414; males reach military age (15) annually 4,346 (1995
est.)
Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $247 million, 5.5% of
GDP (1994)
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