Jordan has a highly developed communications infrastructure. Jordan's telecom infrastructure is growing at a very rapid pace and continually being updated and expanded. Communications in Jordan occur across many media, including telephone, radio, television, and internet.

Telephone

50% of households have at least one main line telephone. 103% of the population has a cell phone; 15% have more than one. * Telephones - main lines in use: 622,600 () * Telephones - mobile telephone, mobile cellular: 6,250,000 () * Trunked radio system, Digital Radio Trunking:100,000 (Unofficial, Nov'07)
In mid 2004, XPress Telecom was launched as the country's digital radio trunking operator. * Telephone system: The service has improved recently with the increased use of telephone switch, digital switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in some rural areas and easier access to Payphone, pay telephones is needed by the urban public. :: ''domestic:'' Microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial cable, coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; considerable use is made of mobile cellular network, cellular systems; Internet service is available. :: ''international:'' satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL; international links total about 4,000.

Radio

* Radios: 1.66 million () ----

Media and Communications Providers

*Seagulls - www.seagullscommunications.com

FM Stations

Television

* Television broadcast stations: 20 (plus 96 repeaters) () * Televisions: 500,000 ()

PCs

40% of Jordanian households have a PC. This is expected to double in the coming years when the government reduces the sales tax on PCs and internet service in an effort to make Jordan the high-tech capital of the Middle East. The Jordanian Government is also providing every university student with a laptop in partnership with the private sector. All Jordan's schools are connected with internet service and the Jordanian Government is heavily purchasing computers and smart technology to be equipped in Jordan's classrooms.

Internet

As of 2013, Internet penetration in Jordan was 63%.Mobile broadband speeds surpass regional average
It was 50.5 percent by the end of 2011. () * Country codes, Country code top-level domain (ccTLD): .JO

Past

The IT industry in Jordan in the year 2000 and beyond got a very big boost after the Gulf War of 1991. This boost came from a large influx of immigrants from the Gulf countries to Jordan, mostly from Jordanian expatriates from Kuwait, totaling few hundred thousands. This large wave impacted Jordan in many ways, and one of them was on its IT industry.

Future

When King Abdullah II ascended to the throne in 1999, he stated his intentions to turn Jordan into the high-tech capital of the Middle East and to create a Silicon Valley-like venture in Jordan. All Jordanian schools are equipped with computers and internet connection and instituted an ICT curriculum into Jordan's education system. ICT faculties were established in Jordanian universities and these campuses have been churning out 15,000 ICT graduates every year. Information access centers were established across the Kingdom to allow rural areas access to the Internet. The number of phone lines has decreased dramatically in the past three years to below 500K telephone lines, due to the introduction of WI-Max technology and 3G networks.