Telecommunications in Yemen provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and ...

Infrastructure

Since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network. The infrastructure of the domestic system consists of microwave radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter,

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(GSM), and

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. Fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains low by regional standards. The international network consists of three

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(two

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, and one

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), one

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, and two

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satellite earth stations, and a microwave radio relay to

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Ara ...

and

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. Yemen is a landing point for the international submarine cable

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(FLAG). In 2005 TeleYemen announced it would invest in the

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high-capacity loop cable system, which will improve Internet access, including broadband capability, and also expand international call accessibility.

Radio and television

The state-run Republic of Yemen Television and Republic of Yemen Radio operate the country's television and radio networks, respectively. There are two state-run TV stations; two state-run national radio stations and five local stations; stations from Oman and Saudi Arabia can be accessed (2007)."Yemen"
''World Factbook'', U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, retrieved 16 February 2013.

Internet usage

Yemen had 2.349 million Internet users in 2011, up from 295,232 in 2008, and 270,000 in 2006.Telecommunication ministry of Yemen, Arabic website
(26-Apr-2009 ). These low numbers are attributed to the high cost of computer equipment and connections in combination with the population's low level of income, as well as to the restricted bandwidth available on Yemen's outdated telephone network. There were 33,206 Internet hosts in 2012. There are five

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s in

. The

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for Yemen is

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Providers

TeleYemen is the exclusive provider of international telecommunications for Yemen—fixed-line and wireless mobile companies,

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, and Internet services—and is one of the mobile-phone operators. In 2003 the government-owned Public Telecommunications Corporation assumed full control of TeleYemen, and a year later it awarded a five-year management contract to

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.Country profile: Yemen

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(August 2008). In 2001 two private companies won 15-year licenses to provide mobile phone services. The growth of the companies' networks has resulted in coverage of about 60 percent of the population, but threats to internal security coupled with poor consumer payment history remain obstacles to future growth. In August 2005, the government awarded a contract to a joint venture between

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and a group of Yemeni investors to take a 55 percent stake in Yemen's third mobile network; the government will retain a 25 percent share. In August 2006, the same conglomerate was awarded a contract for a fourth mobile network. The four mobile network providers currently present in the mobile phone market are MTN Yemen ( Spacetel Yemen until 2006), Sabafon,

Yemen Mobile Yemen Mobile is a CDMA 2000 network provider founded in Yemen in 2004 by the Yemen ministry of telecommunication and it is the first CDMA network operator in the Middle East. Yemen Mobile CDMA system is based on the HUAWEI Technologies. According t ...

, and Y (Y Telecom).

References

External links

Media and Telecommunications Lansdcape in Yemen

infoasaid guide
, February 2012, 118 pp. {{Telecommunications